Child Growth and Development 02/03

by Junn, Ellen N.S; Boyatzis, Chris J.

• ISBN13: 9780072507133
• ISBN10: 0072507136
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Table of Contents

To the Reader	iv
Topic Guide	x
Selected World Wide Web Sites	xiv
UNIT 1 Conception to Birth
Three articles discuss the development of the child from the prenatal state to birth
Unit Overview	xvi
The End of Nature Versus Nurture
Frans B. M. de Waal
This famed scholar explores the nature-nurture debate, and argues that the two interact to shape human development and behavior. Different psychological theories and historical influences are discussed, as is the author's prediction that evolutionary psychology will itself evolve to take better account of cultural influences	2	(5)
How Old is Too Old to Have a Baby?
Judith Newman
Advances in fertility technology are giving couples the chance to have children in middle age, even into their 60s. Judith Newman discusses the personal, medical, and ethical risks for the parents and children of these late-in-life babies	7	(5)
Fetal Psychology
Janet L. Hopson
Fascinating research is revealing the capacities of the fetus before birth, shedding light on prenatal skills of hearing, feeling, and dreaming. Janet Hopson describes the brain developments that underlie these skills	12	(4)
UNIT 2 Cognition, Language, and Learning
Ten selections consider the growth of children's cognitive and language abilities and their experiences in the learning process in school
Unit Overview	16	(50)
Part A. Early Cognitive and Physical Development
The World of the Senses
Joan Raymond
Babies enter the world equipped with an impressive repertoire of sensory and perceptual skills. These skills give them innate preferences (such as a sweet tooth), help them build social relationships, and help them understand the world around them	18	(3)
Kids, Start Your Engines
Joan Raymond
Joan Raymond helps us to understand children's physical development and the various milestones reached in the first several years of life. Early physical development reflects both biological and environmental influences, resulting in considerable variability between babies in their developmental timelines	21	(3)
The Quest for a Super Kid
Jeffrey Kluger
More than ever, parents seem eager to help their children become smarter and smarter at earlier ages. This article addresses some of the myths of early cognitive development and investigates parental guilt	24	(4)
Evolution and Developmental Sex Differences
David C. Geary
David Geary uses an evolutionary framework and Darwinian principles to predict and understand sex differences in childhood in behaviors such as social development, play, and sexual selection. The influence of culture is also considered	28	(5)
Categories in Young Children's Thinking
Susan A. Gelman
Susan Gelman's review of research by several prominent developmentalists describes how children's thinking about the world is strongly influenced by the categories that they are able to create and use. Children's thinking is also discussed in terms of the child's ability to distinguish appearance from reality, to understand the orderliness and naturalness of biological growth, and to use words and names as a guide for making inferences	33	(7)
Do Young Children Understand What Others Feel, Want, and Know?
Angeline Lillard
Stephanie Curenton
When do children understand the minds of others? The authors describe research showing the emergence of young children's intuitive or folk psychology, and discuss how parents and the culture can influence children's understanding of others	40	(6)
Giftedness: Current Theory and Research
Ellen Winner
Gifted children generate interesting questions for us: Are they born that way? If children are gifted in one domain, are they gifted in others? How important is the environment and ``practice, practice, practice''? Ellen Winner addresses these issues and concludes that we do not yet know whether nature or nurture matters more in the creation of giftedness	46	(4)
Part B. Learning in School
The First Seven ... and the Eighth: A Conversation With Howard Gardner
Kathy Checkley
Howard Gardner defines intelligence and explains his theory of multiple intelligences. In this interview, he adds a new one-naturalist intelligence-and describes how multiple intelligences are related to teaching and learning	50	(5)
Parental Engagement That Makes a Difference
Jeremy D. Finn
Jeremy Finn describes the importance of parental involvement in children's success in school, drawing from research to explain which parental behaviors make for effective parental engagement and which make for disengagement	55	(4)
Where the Boys Are
Cathy Young
After decades of outcry that ``schools shortchange girls,'' social scientists, educators, and parents are now considering how boys may get the short end of the educational stick and be at risk in many ways	59	(7)
UNIT 3 Social and Emotional Development
Six articles follow a child's emotional development into the larger social world
Unit Overview	66	(33)
Part A. The Child's Feelings: Emotional Development
A Sense of Self
Thomas Hayden
Psychologists have long discarded the myth that children enter the world as tabula rasa, or a blank slate. Thomas Hayden describes recent research on children's innate personality traits and considers how sensitive parenting can change a child's initial temperament	68	(4)
Emotional Intelligence: What the Research Says
Casey D. Cobb
John D. Mayer
Success in life may rely more on how one understands, emphathizes, and interacts with others and how well one understands oneself. Emotional intelligence-EQ-is more important than IQ, some say, and the authors investigate whether EQ really exists, how it is measured, and whether it can be taught in schools	72	(5)
Babies, Bonds, and Brains
Karen Wright
How does early experience shape our temperaments and personalities? Karen Wright reviews research on monkeys and humans that helps us understand the complex links between behavior and early environment, biology, and personality	77	(4)
Part B. Entry Into the Social World-Peers, Play, and Popularity
What Ever Happened to Play?
Walter Kirn
Wendy Cole
Children's lives-like their parents'-are more structured and organized than ever. Can the ``overscheduled child'' suffer from ``play deprivation'' in a culture where corporate America is marketing edutainment and schools are doing away with recess?	81	(3)
The Company They Keep: Friendships and Their Developmental Significance
Willard W. Hartup
Willard Hartup, a leading scholar of children's friendships, presents research showing the many ways that friends contribute to development in ways distinct from nonfriends. In particular, the author discusses the components of having friends, the identity of one's friends, and the quality of friendship	84	(10)
The Adjustment of Children From Immigrant Families
Andrew J. Fuligni
There are millions of American children born outside this country and more who were born after their parents moved to the United States. Andrew Fuligni describes the roles of socioeconomic, psychosocial, and cultural factors in the adjustment of immigrant children	94	(5)
UNIT 4 Parenting and Family Issues
Seven articles assess the latest implications of child development with regard to attachment, marital transitions, day care, and the moral development of children
Unit Overview	99	(69)
Contemporary Research on Parenting: The Case for Nature and Nurture
W. Andrew Collins
Eleanor E. Maccoby
Laurence Steinberg
E. Mavis Hetherington
Marc H. Bornstein
This distinguished team of leading developmental psychologists summarizes research on parenting related to the interaction of nature and nurture, children's temperament, and the roles of peers and the neighborhood	101	(15)
What Matters? What Does Not? Five Perspectives on the Association Between Marital Transitions and Children's Adjustment
E. Mavis Hetherington
Margaret Bridges
Glendessa M. Insabella
This review of research addresses children's adjustment to divorce, life in step-families, and relations to stepparents. The authors also discuss children's characteristics that influence their adjustments to their parents' divorces and remarriages	116	(19)
American Child Care Today
Sandra Scarr
A leading scholar on day care presents extensive information on the socioeconomics and politics of early child care. Sandra Scarr also summarizes research on the effects of child care on children's social, academic, and emotional development	135	(15)
Do Working Parents Make the Grade?
Ellen Galinsky
Ellen Galinsky offers an interesting article on family life from the child's perspective, asking children about family values and having children grade their mothers and fathers on many aspects of parenting	150	(4)
Father Love and Child Development: History and Current Evidence
Ronald P. Rohner
Mothers' behavior has long been the focus of child development research, but how are fathers important to their children's development? Ronald Rohner describes research on the influence of fathers on children's development and discusses the cultural construction of fatherhood in America	154	(4)
The Moral Development of Children
William Damon
William Damon, a prominent developmental psychologist, discusses the origins of morality, the universality of values, and the key role that parents play in promoting their children's moral development	158	(7)
Playing With God
Tracy Cochran
The first-hand account by a mother provides an intimate look at one family's discussions about religion, science, and God. The essay helps us appreciate children's active role in their own spiritual socialization, and how parents and children influence each other through such discussions	165	(3)
UNIT 5 Cultural and Societal Influences
Nine selections examine the impact that society and culture have on the development of the child
Unit Overview	168	(51)
Part A. Social Issues
Tomorrow's Child
Jerry Adler
Jerry Adler presents historical evidence on various aspects of development, from family life to technology and education to religion and the media	170	(3)
Getting Stupid
Bernice Wuethrich
Teenagers drink, and their brains suffer because of it. Adolescents' alcohol consumption has many negative effects, including the loss of brain cells and impaired memory and intellectual functioning	173	(5)
Why the Young Kill
Sharon Begley
Sharon Begley describes research that shows how both biological factors and environmental ones can increase the risk of a youth's becoming a murderer. The article also discusses the morality of violent children	178	(3)
Part B. Special Challenges
The Effects of Poverty on Children
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Greg J. Duncan
The authors offer detailed research findings on the relationship between poverty and children's outcomes in physical, emotional, cognitive, and school achievement development	181	(13)
Effects of Maltreatment and Ways to Promote Children's Resiliency
Barbara Lowenthal
Barbara Lowenthal describes evidence on the effects of abuse on the child's brain development. Long-term effects on the child's attachment and intellectual development are also discussed	194	(5)
The Early Origins of Autism
Patricia M. Rodier
Autism is a puzzling disorder that includes social withdrawal, language delays, and interpersonal and emotional deficits. Patricia Rodier offers an in-depth discussion on genetic and neurobiological factors in autism	199	(6)
Dyslexia and the New Science of Reading
Barbara Kantrowitz
Anne Underwood
Dyslexia plagues millions of American children and adults. Fortunately, scientists have gained a better understanding of the brain's role in this disorder, how parents can help their children, and how educational interventions can improve children's reading	205	(5)
A Mother-and-Child Reunion, Time, May 14, 2001
This article offers a moving glimpse into the suffering and hope of children and parents in regions of West Africa ravaged by war	210	(3)
Escaping From the Darkness, Time, May 31, 1999
Approximately 500,000 to 1 million American children and youth take prescription antidepressants. Howard Chua-Eoan discusses children's depression, what parents and schools can do about it, and the potential long-term risks of antidepressant drugs for children	213	(6)
Index	219	(3)
Test Your Knowledge Form	222	(1)
Article Rating Form	223