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The Developing Child, 13e gives students the tools they need to organize, retain, and apply information from the broad field of child psychology, while offering balanced coverage of theory and application.
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IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Basic Issues in the Study of Development
Part II: The Beginnings of Life
Chapter 2: Prenatal Development
Chapter 3: Birth and Early Infancy
Part III: The Physical Child
Chapter 4: Physical Development
Chapter 5: Perceptual Development
Part IV: The Thinking Child
Chapter 6: Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process
Chapter 7: Cognitive Development II: Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
Chapter 8: The Development of Language
Part V: The Social Child
Chapter 9: Personality Development: Alternative Views
Chapter 10: Concepts of Self, Gender, and Sex Roles
Chapter 11: The Development of Social Relationships
Chapter 12: Thinking about Relationships: Social-Cognitive and Moral Development
Part VI: The Whole Child
Chapter 13: The Ecology of Development: The Child within the Family System
Chapter 14: Beyond the Family: The Impact of the Broader Culture
Chapter 15: Atypical Development
Epilogue: Putting It All Together: The Developing Child
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Basic Issues in the Study of Development
Issues in the Study of Development
Theories of Development
Finding the Answers: Research Designs and Methods
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Part II: The Beginnings of Life
Chapter 2: Prenatal Development
Conception and Genetics
Development from Conception to Birth
Problems in Prenatal Development
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 3: Birth and Early Infancy
Birth
Behavior in Early Infancy
Health and Wellness in Early Infancy
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Part III: The Physical Child
Chapter 4: Physical Development
The Brain and Nervous System
Size, Shape, and Skills
The Endocrine and Reproductive Systems
Sexual Behavior in Adolescence
Health and Wellness
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 5: Perceptual Development
Thinking about Perceptual Development
Sensory Skills
Perceptual Skills
The Object Concept
Perception of Social Signals
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Part IV: The Thinking Child
Chapter 6: Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process
Piaget’s Basic Ideas
Infancy
The Preschool Years
The School-Aged Child
Adolescence
Development of Information-Processing Skills
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 7: Cognitive Development II: Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
Measuring Intellectual Power
Explaining Individual Differences in IQ Scores
Explaining Group Differences in IQ or Achievement Test Scores
Alternative Views of Intelligence
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 8: The Development of Language
Before the First Word: The Prelinguistic Phase
Learning Words and Word Meanings
Learning the Rules: The Development of Grammar and Pragmatics
Explaining Language Development
Individual and Group Differences in Language Development
Learning to Read and Write
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Part V: The Social Child
Chapter 9: Personality Development: Alternative Views
Defining Personality
Genetic and Biological Explanations of Personality
Learning Explanations of Personality
Psychoanalytic Explanations of Personality
A Possible Synthesis
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 10: Concepts of Self, Gender, and Sex Roles
The Concept of Self
Self-Esteem
The Development of the Concepts of Gender and Sex Roles
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 11: The Development of Social Relationships
Relationships with Parents
Variations in the Quality of Attachments
Relationships with Peers
Behavior with Peers
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 12: Thinking about Relationships: Social-Cognitive and Moral Development
The Development of Social Cognition
Moral Development
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Part VI: The Whole Child
Chapter 13: The Ecology of Development: The Child within the Family System
Understanding the Family System
Dimensions of Family Interaction
Parenting Styles
Family Structure, Divorce, and Parental Employment
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 14: Beyond the Family: The Impact of the Broader Culture
Nonparental Care
The Impact of Schools
The Impact of Entertainment Media
Macrosystem Effects: The Impact of the Larger Culture
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Chapter 15: Atypical Development
Understanding Atypical Development
Attention Problems and Externalizing Problems
Internalizing Problems
Atypical Intellectual and Social Development
Schooling for Atypical Children
Think Critically
Conduct Your Own Research
Summary
Key Terms
Epilogue: Putting It All Together: The Developing Child
Transitions, Consolidations, and Systems
From Birth to 24 Months
The Preschool Years
The Elementary School Years
Adolescence
A Return to Some Basic Questions
Glossary
References
Photo Credits
Name Index
Subject Index
Found in this section:
1. Overview of changes
2. Chapter-by-chapter changes
1. Overview of Changes
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EXPLORE RESEARCH
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New Expanded Coverage. In addition to hundreds of new research citations, there is a range of new and expanded topics in this edition, including an emphasis on the relationship between technology and child development, more examples of relevant cross-cultural studies, and increased coverage of how cultural factors and variations impact the developing child.
SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS
2. Chapter-by-chapter changes
Chapter 1: Basic Issues in the Study of Development
• New vignette discusses John Watson's controversial views on child-rearing
• New section discusses normative age-graded, normative history-graded, and nonnormative changes
• New table summarizes the various research methods covered in the chapter
• Thinking about Research: Responding to Media Reports of Research
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Helping Children Who Are Afraid to Go to School
Chapter 2: Prenatal Development
• New vignette examines what happens when two sperm fertilize a single ovum
• Updated discussions include genomic imprinting, fetal brain development, HIV/AIDS, prescription/over-the-counter drugs, maternal weight-consciousness during pregnancy, and impact of maternal age on fetal development.
• New images highlight insights into prenatal development that have been gained through the use of new technologies, including a 3-dimensional sonogram of fetal yawning, a graph showing correlations between fetal brain development and fetal behavior, and an MRI of a fetal brain.
• New text discusses viability, neuronal proliferation, neuronal migration
• Thinking about Research: Assisted Reproductive Technology
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Fetal Assessment and Treatment
Chapter 3: Birth and Early Infancy
• New coverage of Esther Thelen's dynamic systems theory of infant reflex and motor development and ethnic differences in early prenatal care.
• New text discusses antibiotic resistance and otitis media
• Thinking about Research: Variations in Infants' Cries
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Breast or Bottle?
Chapter 4: Physical Development
• New vignette on a waterskiing toddler examines how maturational and experiential elements work together to influence development.
• New coverage includes the prefrontal cortex, stabilization of the growth curve, transgendered teens, and the impact of handedness on development.
• Expanded and updated coverage includes STDs, the influence of diet on secular trends in age at menarche and secondary sex characteristic development, and excessive weight gain in childhood.
• New tables show drugs abused by adolescents and the environmental factors associated with poverty and health
• Thinking about Research: Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
• Developmental Science in the Real World: A Good Night's Sleep for Kids (and Parents, Too!)
Chapter 5: Perceptual Development
• New chapter-opening vignette discussing a young child’s version of the Pledge of Allegiance helps readers grasp the distinction between sensation and perception
• New coverage of stereopsis, binocular fusion, and amblyopia
• Thinking about Research: Langlois's Studies of Babies' Preferences for Attractive Faces
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Infant Responses to Maternal Depression
Chapter 6: Cognitive Development I: Structure and Process
• New chapter-opening vignette examines what happens when children at different ages – and different Piagetian stages – play a board game together.
• New coverage includes figurative and operative schemes, centration and decentration, relational complexity, seriation, and transitivity, response inhibition, and memory strategies.
• Thinking about Research: Elkind's Adolescent Egocentrism
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Leading Questions and Children's Memory
Chapter 7: Cognitive Development II: Individual Differences in Cognitive Abilities
• New sections include one on creativity and another on the relationship between family characteristics and IQ scores.
• New information on IQ scores of "virtual" twins and new information on group IQ tests.
• New figures compare correlations of IQ scores of people of different degrees of biological relations and show correlations of identical and fraternal twins from birth to adulthood
• New terms include reliability, validity, shared environment, nonshared environment, creativity, and divergent thinking
• Thinking about Research: The Flynn Effect
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Stereotype Threat
Chapter 8: The Development of Language
• Expanded coverage includes the different types of reading instruction (i.e. systematic and explicit phonics, whole language, and the balanced approach).
• Thinking about Research: Sign Language and Gestures in Children Who Are Deaf
• Developmental Science in the Real World: One Language or Two?
Chapter 9: Personality Development: Alternative Views
• Reorganized discussion of the Big Five and temperament
• New discussion of reciprocal determinism
• Thinking about Research: Locus of Control and Adolescent Health
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Temperament Surgency in the Toddler Classroom
Chapter 10: Concepts of Self, Gender, and Sex Roles
• New figure illustrates changes in sex-role rigidity/flexibility across age
• Thinking about Research: Gender Differences in Temperament: Real or Imagined?
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Adolescent Rites of Passage Programs
Chapter 11: The Development of Social Relationships
• New vignette about the "Lost Boys of Sudan"
• Added internal working models to discussion of attachment theory
• New discussion of romantic relationships among homosexual teens
• Thinking about Research: Bullies and Victims
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Raising Helpful and Altruistic Children
Chapter 12: Thinking about Relationships: Social-Cognitive and Moral Development
• Thinking about Research: Preventing Violence by Increasing Children's Emotional Competence
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Learning and Unlearning Prejudice
Chapter 13: The Ecology of Development
• Expanded discussion of systems theory includes Belsky's model of the family
• New discussion the role played by mirror neurons in family influences on individual development
• Cohabiting heterosexual parents, blended families, extended families, and gay and lesbian families included in discussion of family structure
• Thinking about Research: To Spank or Not to Spank
• Developmental Science in the Real World: When Divorce is Unavoidable
Chapter 14: Beyond the Family: The Impact of the Broader Culture
• Revamped discussion of nonparental care
• New section on models of early childhood education and association between early schooling and socioeconomic status
• New section on elementary education
• New text and figures illustrating the impact of schooling on cognitive development
• Added discussion entertainment media, computers, and electronic multitasking
• Expanded and reorganized discussion of poverty
• Thinking about Research: The Effects of Teenaged Employment
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Choosing a Child Care Center
Chapter 15: Atypical Development
• New vignette addresses ability of teens with anorexia to hide the disorder from parents
• New discussion and summary table of theoretical perspectives on atypical development
• Added coverage of oppositional defiant disorder
• New text and table address ethnic group differences in diagnosis and treatment of ADHD
• New table illustrates categories of mental retardation
• Expanded discussion of research on vaccines and autism
• Developmental Science in the Real World: Knowing When to Seek Professional Health
• Thinking about Research: Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
Epilogue
• Neurological development added to milestone tables for all age periods