Theo Todman's Book Collection (Book-Paper Abstracts)

BOOK ABSTRACT:

Contents₁

1. Basic Questions
   → 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
2. Prenatal Development
   → 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
3. Birth and the Newborn Child
   → The Stages of Labor
   → Adapting to the Newborn
   → The Newborn: What Can He Do?
   → The Daily Life of Infants
   → Individual Differences Among Babies
4. Physical Development
   → 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
5. Perceptual 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
6. Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process
   → 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
7. Cognitive Development II: Individual Difference in Cognitive Abilities
   → 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
8. The Development of Language
   → 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
9. Personality Development: Alternative Views
   → Defining Personality in Adults
   → Defining Personality in Children
   → Genetic and Biological Explanations
   → Learning Explanations
   → Psychoanalytic Explanations
   → A Possible Synthesis
10. The Concept of Self in Children
    → The Development of the Concept of Self
    → Self-esteem
    → The Self-concept: A Summing-up
    → The Development of Gender and Sex-Role Concepts
11. The Development of Social Relationships
    → 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
12. Thinking About Relationships: The Development of Social Cognition
    → 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
13. The Ecology of Development: The Child Within the Family System
    → 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
14. Beyond the Family: The Impact of the Broader Culture
    → 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
15. Atypical Development
    → 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
16. Putting it All Together: The Developing Child
    → 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