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Brief Contents
Part I Foundations 23
Chapter 1 Human Development and Research Methodology 23
Chapter 2 Theories of Development 45
Chapter 3 Development from Conception to Birth 70
Part II Infancy 104
Chapter 4 Infancy–The Process of Skills Development 104
Chapter 5 Infancy–Learning and Cognitive Changes 127
Chapter 6 Infancy–Social and Personality Development 149
Part III Early Childhood 173
Chapter 7 Early Childhood–Physical and Cognitive Changes 173
Chapter 8 Early Childhood–Social and Personality Development 201
Part Iv Middle Childhood 233
Chapter 9 Middle Childhood–Physical and Cognitive Changes 233
Chapter 10 Middle Childhood–Social and Personality Development 262
Part v Adolescence 287
Chapter 11 Adolescence–Physical and Cognitive Changes 287
Chapter 12 Adolescence–Social and Personality Development 317
Part vI Early Adulthood 343
Chapter 13 Early Adulthood–Physical and Cognitive Changes 343
Chapter 14 Early Adulthood–Social and Personality Development 371
Part vII Middle Adulthood 397
Chapter 15 Middle Adulthood–Physical and Cognitive Changes 397
Chapter 16 Middle Adulthood–Social and Personality Development 421
Part vIII Late Adulthood and the End of Life 439
Chapter 17 Late Adulthood–Physical and Cognitive Changes 439
Chapter 18 Late Adulthood–Social and Personality Development 464
Chapter 19 Coping with Death and Bereavement 488
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List of Features
No Easy Answers
10 Bullies and Victims 277
1 It Depends . . .34
11 Reaching High School Dropouts 312
2 The Repressed-Memory Controversy 47
12 Interventions for Aggressive Teens 333
3 When Do Preterm Infants Catch Up
with Full-Term Infants? 99 13 Assisted Reproductive Technology 349
4 TV for Tots: How Much Is Too Much? 106 14 Wedding Stress Management 377
5 One Language or Two? 143 15 The Pros and Cons of Hormone Therapy 401
6 Adoption and Development 151 16 Who Cares for Aging Parents? 427
7 To Test or Not to Test? 197 17 The Coming Demographic Crisis 441
8 When Divorce Is Unavoidable 223 18 Deciding on Nursing Home Care 475
9 IQ Testing in the Schools 248 19 Saying Goodbye 496
Research Report
10 Only Children, Birth Order, and Children’s
1 An Example of a Cohort Effect: Children
Development 272
and Adolescents in the Great Depression 31
11 Formal Operational Thinking and Everyday
2 Piaget’s Clever Research 60
Problem Solving 305
3 Twins in Genetic Research 73
12 The Effects of Teenaged Employment 320
4 Langlois’s Studies of Babies’ Preferences
13 Gender Differences in the Brain 346
for Attractive Faces 121
14 Sex Differences in the Impact of Marriage 378
5 Early Gestural Language in the Children of Deaf
Parents 140 15 Internet Addiction Disorder 411
6 Gender Differences in Temperament 162 16 The Empty Nest and the Revolving Door 426
7 Children’s Play and Cognitive Development 181 17 Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s
Disease 453
8 Racism in the Preschool Classroom 204
18 Filial Piety 474
9 Stereotype Threat 251
19 Ethnicity and the Widowhood Effect 508
Developmental Science
1 . . . at Home: Correlation versus Causation 36 12 . . . in the Classroom: Role Models in Life
2 . . . in the Classroom: Systematic Desensitization 52 and in the Media 324
3 . . . in the Clinic: Singing to Preterm Infants 98 13 . . . in the Clinic: Smoking Cessation 352
4 . . . in the Clinic: When an Infant Dies 114 14 . . . at Home: Strategies for Coping with Conflict
between Work and Family Life 392
5 . . . in the Classroom: The Importance of Reading
to Toddlers 139 15 . . . in the Workplace: Maintaining the Creative
“Edge” at Mid-Life and Beyond 416
6 . . . at Home: Choosing a Day-Care Center 168
16 . . . at Home: Me, a Mother-in-Law? 429
7 . . . at Home: A Good Night’s Sleep for Kids
(and Parents, Too!) 177 17 . . . in the Clinic: Computers in Rehabilitation
Programs 454
8 . . . at Home: To Spank or Not to Spank? 217
18 . . . at Home: Elder Abuse 476
9 . . . at Home: Homeschooling 256
19 . . . in the Classroom: Copycat Suicide
10 . . . at Home: Encouraging Moral Reasoning 270
and the Internet 492
11 . . . in the Clinic: Crisis Intervention
for the Pregnant Teen 297
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Contents
Preface 16 DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE IN THE CLASSROOM Systematic
Acknowledgments 22 Desensitization 52
Skinner’s Operant Conditioning 52
Part I: Foundations 23 Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Theory 53
Evaluation of Learning Theories 54
Chapter 1: Human Development and
test yourself before going on 55
Research Methodology 23
Cognitive Theories 55
An Introduction to Human Development 24
Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory 55
Philosophical and Scientific Roots 24
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory 57
The Lifespan Perspective 26
Information-Processing Theory 57
The Domains and Periods of Development 26
Evaluation of Cognitive Theories 58
test yourself before going on 28
test yourself before going on 59
Key Issues in the Study of Human Development 28 RESEARCH REPORT Piaget’s Clever Research 60
Nature versus Nurture 28
Biological and Ecological Theories 60
Continuity versus Discontinuity 29
Behavior Genetics 60
Three Kinds of Change 29
Ethology and Sociobiology 61
RESEARCH REPORT An Example of a Cohort Effect: Children
Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory 62
and Adolescents in the Great Depression 31
test yourself before going on 63
Contexts of Development 31
test yourself before going on 32
Comparing Theories 63
Research Methods and Designs 33 Assumptions about Development 63
Usefulness 65
The Goals of Developmental Science 33
Eclecticism 65
Descriptive Methods 33
test yourself before going on 66
NO EASY ANSWERS It Depends . . . 34
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE AT HOME Correlation versus
Summary 66
Causation 36
Chapter Test 68
The Experimental Method 36
Designs for Studying Age-Related Changes 37
Chapter 3: Development from Conception
Cross-Cultural Research 39
to Birth 70
Research Ethics 39
test yourself before going on 41 Conception and Genetics 71
The Process of Conception 71
Summary 41
RESEARCH REPORT Twins in Genetic Research 73
Chapter Test 43
How Genes Influence Development 73
Chapter 2: Theories of Development 45 test yourself before going on 76
Psychoanalytic Theories 46 Genetic and Chromosomal Disorders 76
Freud’s Psychosexual Theory 46 Genetic Disorders 76
NO EASY ANSWERS The Repressed-Memory Controversy 47 Chromosomal Errors 78
Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory 48 test yourself before going on 79
Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Theories 49
Pregnancy and Prenatal Development 79
test yourself before going on 50
The Mother’s Experience 79
Learning Theories 51 Prenatal Development 81
Classical Conditioning 51 Sex Differences 84
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