Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 11/12

by Junn, Ellen; Boyatzis, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780078050756
• ISBN10: 0078050758
• Edition: 18th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-24
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

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Table of Contents

Preface

Correlation Guide

Topic Guide

Internet References

Conception to Birth

Unit Overview

New Calculator Factors Chances for Very Premature Infants

Genes in Context: Gene–Environment Interplay and the Origins of Individual Differences in Behavior

Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development: Pathology or Adaptation?

Cognition, Language, and Learning

Unit Overview

Early Cognition and Physical Development

Infants’ Differential Processing of Female and Male Faces

The Other-Race Effect Develops during Infancy: Evidence of Perceptual Narrowing

New Advances in Understanding Sensitive Periods in Brain Development

Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development

It’s Fun, but Does It Make You Smarter?

Language and Children’s Understanding of Mental States

Developmental Narratives of the Experiencing Child

Social Cognitive Development: A New Look

Future Thinking in Young Children

Talking about Science in Museums

Learning in School

When Should a Kid Start Kindergarten?

Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?

Social Awareness + Emotional Skills = Successful Kids

Social and Emotional Development

Unit Overview

The Child’s Feelings: Emotional Development

A Neurobiological Perspective on Early Human Deprivation

Don’t!: The Secret of Self-Control

Children’s Capacity to Develop Resiliency: How to Nurture It

Emotions and the Development of Childhood Depression: Bridging the Gap

Entry into the Social World: Peers, Play, and Popularity

Children’s Social and Moral Reasoning about Exclusion

A Profile of Bullying at School

When Girls and Boys Play: What Research Tells Us

Playtime in Peril

The Role of Neurobiological Deficits in Childhood Antisocial Behavior

Parenting and Family Issues

Unit Overview

Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents

Evidence of Infants’ Internal Working Models of Attachment

Parental Divorce and Children’s Adjustment

Within-Family Differences in Parent–Child Relations across the Life Course

The Messy Room Dilemma: When to Ignore Behavior, When to Change It

The Role of Parental Control in Children’s Development in Western and East Asian Countries

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

Siblings Play Formative, Influential Role as ‘Agents of Socialization’, From ScienceDaily, January 20, 2010

Cultural and Societal Influences

Unit Overview

Social and Cultural Issues

Goodbye to Girlhood

Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith over Medicine

Special Challenges

Childhood’s End

How to Win the Weight Battle

The Epidemic That Wasn’t

The Positives of Caregiving: Mothers’ Experiences Caregiving for a Child with Autism

Three Reasons Not to Believe in an Autism Epidemic, Morton Ann Gernsbacher

Getting Back to the Great Outdoors

Treatment and Prevention of Posttraumatic Stress Reactions in Children and Adolescents Exposed to Disasters and Terrorism: What Is the Evidence?

Test-Your-Knowledge

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