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| History, Theory, and Research Strategies | |
| The Field of Child Development | |
| Periods of Development | |
| Domains of Development | |
| Basic Issues | |
| Continuous or Discontinuous Development? | |
| One Course of Development or Many? | |
| Nature or Nurture as More Important? | |
| A Balanced Point of View | |
| Historical Foundations | |
| Medieval Times | |
| The Reformation | |
| Philosophies of the Enlightenment | |
| Darwin''s Theory of Evolution | |
| Scientific Beginnings | |
| Mid-Twentieth-Century Theories | |
| The Psychoanalytic Perspective | |
| Behaviorism and Social Learning Theory | |
| Piaget''s Cognitive-Developmental Theory | |
| Recent Theoretical Perspectives | |
| Information Processing | |
| Ethology | |
| Vygotsky''s Sociocultural Theory | |
| Ecological Systems Theory | |
| New Directions: Development as a Dynamic System | |
| Comparing Child Development Theories | |
| Studying the Child | |
| Common Methods of Gathering Information | |
| General Research Designs | |
| Designs for Studying Development | |
| Ethics in Research on Children | |
| Biological and Environmental Foundations | |
| Genetic Foundations | |
| The Genetic Code | |
| The Sex Cells | |
| Boy or Girl? Multiple Births | |
| Patterns of Genetic Inheritance | |
| Chromosomal Abnormalities | |
| Reproductive Choices | |
| Genetic Counseling | |
| Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Medicine | |
| The Alternative of Adoption | |
| Environmental Contexts for Development | |
| The Family | |
| Socioeconomic Status and Family Functioning | |
| The Impact of Poverty | |
| Beyond the Family: Neighborhoods, Schools, Towns, and Cities | |
| The Cultural Context | |
| Understanding the Relationship Between Heredity and Environment | |
| The Question, "How Much?" The Question, "How?" | |
| Prenatal Development | |
| Motivations for Parenthood | |
| Why Have Children? How Large a Family? | |
| Is There a Best Time During Adulthood to Have a Child? | |
| Prenatal Development | |
| Conception | |
| The Period of the Zygote | |
| The Period of the Embryo | |
| The Period of the Fetus | |
| Prenatal Environmental Influences | |
| Teratogens | |
| Other Maternal Factors | |
| The Importance of Prenatal Health Care | |
| Preparing for Parenthood | |
| Seeking Information | |
| The Baby Becomes a Reality | |
| Models of Effective Parenthood | |
| Practical Concerns | |
| The Parental Relationship | |
| Birth And the Newborn Baby | |
| The Stages of Childbirth | |
| Stage 1: Dilation and Effacement of the Cervix | |
| Stage 2: Delivery of the Baby | |
| Stage 3: Birth of the Placenta | |
| The Baby''s Adaptation to Labor and Delivery | |
| The Newborn Baby''s Appearance | |
| Assessing the Newborn''s Physical Condition: The Apgar Scale | |
| Approaches to Childbirth | |
| Natural, or Prepared, Childbirth | |
| Home Delivery | |
| Medical Interventions | |
| Fetal Monitoring | |
| Labor and Delivery Medication | |
| Instrument Delivery | |
| Induced Labor | |
| Cesarean Delivery | |
| Birth Complications | |
| Oxygen Deprivation | |
| Preterm and Low-Birth-Weight Infants | |
| Postterm Infants | |
| Understanding Birth Complications | |
| Precious Moments after Birth | |
| The Newborn Baby''s Capacities | |
| Reflexes | |
| States | |
| Sensory Capacities | |
| Neonatal Behavioral Assessment | |
| The Transition to Parenthood | |
| Changes in the Family System | |
| Parent Interventions | |
| Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood | |
| Body Growth | |
| Changes in Body Size | |
| Changes in Body Proportions | |
| Changes in Muscle-Fat Makeup | |
| Skeletal Growth | |
| Appearance of Teeth | |
| Brain Development | |
| Development of Neurons | |
| Development of the Cerebral Cortex | |
| Sensitive Periods in Brain Development | |
| Changing States of Arousal | |
| Factors Affecting Early Physical Growth | |
| Heredity | |
| Nutrition | |
| Malnutrition | |
| Emotional Well-Being | |
| Learning capacities | |
| Classical Conditioning | |
| Operant Conditioning | |
| Habituation and Dishabituation | |
| Imitation | |
| Motor Development | |
| The Sequence of Motor Development | |
| Motor Skills as Dynamic Systems | |
| Dynamic Motor Systems in Action | |
| Cultural Variations in Motor Development | |
| Fine Motor Development: Voluntary Reaching and Grasping | |
| Bowel and Bladder Control | |
| Perceptual Development | |
| Hearing | |
| Vision | |
| Object Perception | |
| Intermodal Perception | |
| Understanding Perceptual Development | |
| Cognitive Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood | |
| Piaget''s Cognitive-Developmental Theory | |
| Key Piagetian Concepts | |
| The Sensorimotor Stage | |
| Recent Research on Sensorimotor Development | |
| Evaluation of the Sensorimotor Stage | |
| Information Processing | |
| Structure of the Information-Processing System | |
| Attention | |
| Memory | |
| Categorization | |
| Evaluation of Information-Processing Findings | |
| The Social Context of Early Cognitive Development | |
| Individual Differences in Early Mental Development | |
| Infant Intelligence Tests | |
| Early Environment and Mental Development | |
| Early Intervention for At-Risk Infants and Toddlers | |
| Language Development | |
| Three Theories of Language Development | |
| Getting Ready to Talk | |
| First Words | |
| The Two-Word Utterance Phase | |
| Comprehension Versus Production | |
| Individual and Cultural Differences | |
| Supporting Early Language Development | |
| Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood | |
| Erikson''s Theory of Infant and Toddler Personality | |
| Basic Trust versus Mistrust | |
| Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt | |
| Emotional Development | |
| Development of Basic Emotions | |
| Understanding and Responding to the Emotions of Others | |
| Emergence of Self-Conscious Emotions | |
| Beginnings of Emotional Self-Regulation | |
| Temperament and Development | |
| The Structure of Temperament | |
| Measuring Temperament | |
| Stability of Temperament | |
| Genetic Influences | |
| Environmental Influences | |
| Temperament and Child Rearing: The Goodness-of-Fit Model | |
| Development of Attachment | |
| Early Theories of Attachment | |
| Bowlby''s Ethological Theory | |
| Measuring the Security of Attachment | |
| Stability of Attachment | |
| Cultural Variations | |
| Factors that Affect Attachment Security | |
| Multiple Attachments | |
| From Attachment to Peer Sociability | |
| Attachment and Later Development | |
| Self-Development | |
| Self-Awareness | |
| Categorizing the Self | |
| Emergence of Self-Control | |
| Physical Development in Early Childhood | |
| Body Growth | |
| Changes in Body Size and Proportions | |
| Skeletal Growth | |
| Asynchronies in Physical Growth | |
| Brain Development | |
| Synaptic Growth and Pruning | |
| Lateralization | |
| Handedness | |
| Other Advances in Brain Development | |
| Factors Affecting Growth and Health | |
| Heredity and Hormones | |
| Emotional Well-Being | |
| Sleep Habits and Problems | |
| Nutrition | |
| Infectious Disease | |
| Childhood Injuries | |
| Motor Development | |
| Gross Motor Development | |
| Fine Motor Development | |
| Individual Differences in Motor Skills | |
| Enhancing Early Childhood Motor Development | |
| Perceptual Development | |
| Cognitive Development in Early Childhood | |
| Piaget''s Theory: The Preoperational Stage | |
| Advances in Mental Representation | |
| Make-Believe Play | |
| Symbol-Real World Relations | |
| Limitations of Preoperational Thought | |
| Recent Research on Preoperational Thought | |
| Evaluation of the Preoperational Stage | |
| Piaget and Education | |
| Vygotsky''s Sociocultural Theory | |
| Children''s Private Speech | |
| Social Origins of Early Childhood Cognition | |
| Vygotsky and Education | |
| Evaluation of Vygotsky''s Theory | |
| Information Processing | |
| Attention | |
| Memory | |
| Problem Solving | |
| The Young Child''s Theory of Mind | |
| Early Literacy and Mathematical Development | |
| Individual Differences in Mental Development | |
| Early Childhood Intelligence Tests | |
| Home Environment and Mental Development | |
| Preschool and Day Care | |
| Educational Television | |
| Language Development | |
| Vocabulary Development | |
| Grammatical Development | |
| Becoming an Effective Conversationalist | |
| Supporting Language Learning in Early Childhood | |
| Emotional And Social Development In Early Childhood | |
| Erikson''s Theory: Initiative Versus Guilt | |
| Self-Development | |
| Foundations of Self-Concep | |
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