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BOOK ABSTRACT:
Contents1
→ Nature and Nurture: An Ancient Debate
→ Interactions of Nature and Nurture
→ The Nature of Development
→ Theories of Development
→ Finding the Answers: Research on Development
→ Research Methods
→ Research Analysis
→ Conception
→ The Basics of Conception
→ Patterns of Genetic Inheritance
→ Twins2 and Siblings
→ Genotypes and Phenotypes
→ Development from Conception to Birth
→ An Overview of Prenatal Development
→ Genetic Errors
→ Teratogens: Diseases and Drugs
→ Other Influences on Prenatal Development
→ An Overview of Risks and Long-Term Consequences of Prenatal Problems
→ Sex Differences in Prenatal Development
→ Social Class Differences
→ The Stages of Labor
→ Adapting to the Newborn
→ The Newborn: What Can He Do?
→ The Daily Life of Infants
→ Individual Differences Among Babies
→ Four Reasons for Studying Physical Development
→ Basic Sequences and Common Patterns
→ Development of Sexual Maturity
→ Using the Body: Motor Development
→ Variations in Rate of Development
→ Health Issues
→ Determinants of Growth: Explanations of Physical Development
→ Ways of Studying Early Perceptual Skills
→ Basic Sensory Skills
→ Complex Perceptual Skills: Preferences, Discrimination, and Patterns
→ Ignoring Perceptual Information: The Perceptual Constancies
→ The Object Concept
→ Perception of Social Signals
→ Individual Differences in Perception: Speed and Efficiency
→ Explanations of Perceptual Development
→ Perceptual Development: A Summing-Up
→ Three Views of Intelligence
→ Piaget's Perspective
→ Infancy
→ The Preschool Years
→ The School-Age Child
→ Cognitive Development in Adolescence
→ Preliminary Conclusions and Questions
→ Information Processing in Children
→ Measuring Intellectual Power: IQ3 Tests and Other Measures
→ Stability and Predictive Values of IQ4 Tests
→ An Alternative View: Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
→ Explaining Differences in IQ5 Scores
→ Interaction Heredity and Environment
→ Group Differences in IQ6 Scores
→ The Measurement of Intelligence: A Last Look
→ Individual Differences in Information Processing
→ Cognitive Development: Putting the Three Approaches Together
→ What is Language Anyway?
→ Before the First Words: The Prelinguistic Phase
→ The First Words
→ Speaking in Sentences: The Development of Grammar
→ the Development of Word Meaning
→ Using Language: Communication and Self-direction
→ Explaining Language development
→ Individual Differences in Language Development
→ An Application of the Basic Knowledge: Learning to Read
→ Defining Personality in Adults
→ Defining Personality in Children
→ Genetic and Biological Explanations
→ Learning Explanations
→ Psychoanalytic Explanations
→ A Possible Synthesis
→ The Development of the Concept of Self
→ Self-esteem
→ The Self-concept: A Summing-up
→ The Development of Gender and Sex-Role Concepts
→ Attachment theory: Concepts and Terminology
→ The Parents' Bond to the Child
→ The Baby's Attachment to the Parent
→ Variations in the Quality of Infants' Attachments
→ Relationships with Peers: Playmates and Friends
→ Behavior with Peers: Prosocial Behavior and Aggression
→ Individual Differences in Peer Relationships
→ Some General Principles and Issues
→ Reading Others' Feelings
→ Describing Other People
→ Describing Friendships
→ Making Moral Judgments
→ Social Cognition and Behavior
→ Social Cognition and General Cognitive Development
→ Theoretical Approaches
→ Dimensions of Family Interaction
→ Patterns or Styles of Child Rearing
→ Other Aspects of Family Dynamics
→ Some Exosystem Effects: Parents' Work and Social Support
→ Child Care
→ The Impact of Schools
→ Joining the Work World: The Impact of Jobs on Teenagers
→ The Impact of the Mass Media
→ Macrosystem Effects: The Impact of the Larger Culture
→ Frequency of Problems
→ Developmental Psychopathology7: A New Approach
→ The Psychopathologies8 of Childhood
→ Intellectually Atypical Development
→ Schooling for Atypical Children
→ Sex Differences in Atypical Development
→ A Final Point
→ Transitions, Consolidations, and Systems
→ From Birth to 18 Months
→ The Preschool Years
→ The Elementary School Years
→ Adolescence
→ Returning to Some Basic Questions
→ Individual Difference
→ A Final Point: The Joy of Development
In-Page Footnotes ("Bee (Helen) - The Developing Child")
Footnote 1: This is the TOC of the 9th edition, but is broadly similar to that of the 5th editon.
BOOK COMMENT:
Fifth edition, 1989. For the latest edition, see Link (Defunct).
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