Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues

by Balter, Lawrence; Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine S.

• ISBN13: 9781841690001
• ISBN10: 1841690007
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

provides an invaluable and practical resource for students and instructors on a wide variety of courses ...

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
I. INFANCY
Emotional Self-Regulation in Infancy and Toddlerhood	3	(20)
Wendy S. Grolnick
Jannette M. McMenamy
Carolyn O. Kurowski
The What, Why, and How of Temperament: A Piece of the Action	23	(22)
Theodore D. Wachs
Infant-Parent Attachment	45	(19)
Jay Belsky
Visual Information Processing in Infancy: Reflections on Underlying Mechanisms	64	(21)
Susan Rose
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Development of Recognition and Categorization of Objects and Their Spatial Relations in Young Infants	85	(31)
Paul C. Quinn
The Signs and Sounds of Early Language Development	116	(27)
Linda P. Acredolo
Susan W. Goodwyn
Karen D. Horobin
Yvonne D. Emmons
II. PRESCHOOL YEARS
Peer Relations	143	(15)
Carollee Howes
Holli Tonyan
Pretense and Counterfactual Thought in Young Children	158	(19)
Robert D. Kavanaugh
Paul L. Harris
Taking a Hard Look at Concreteness: Do Concrete Objects Help Young Children Learn Symbolic Relations?	177	(16)
David H. Uttal
Linda L. Liu
Judy S. DeLoache
The Role of Reminders in Young Children's Memory Development	193	(22)
Judith A. Hudson
Ellyn G. Sheffield
Telling Two kinds of Stories: Sources of Narrative Skill	215	(22)
Paola Uccelli
Lowry Hemphill
Barbara Alexander Pan
Catherine Snow
III. CHILDHOOD
Emotion Regulation in Peer Relationships During Middle Childhood	237	(22)
Marion K. Underwood
Jennifer C. Hurley
Metacognitive Development	259	(28)
Deanna Kuhn
Academic and Motivational Pathways Through Middle Childhood	287	(31)
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Robert Roeser
Allan Wigfield
Carol Freedman-Doan
Emotion, Emotion-Related Regulation, and Quality of Socioemotional Functioning	318	(21)
Nancy Eisenberg
Richard A. Fabes
IV. CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
Parenting	339	(24)
Robert H. Bradley
Robert F. Corwyn
The Role of Gender Knowledge in Children's Gender-Typed Preferences	363	(28)
Stephanie Aubry
Diane N. Ruble
Laura B. Silverman
Effects of Poverty on Children	391	(21)
Aletha C. Huston
The Effects of Community Violence on Children	412	(17)
James Garbarino
V. NEW FRONTIERS
New Family Forms: Children Raised in Solo Mother Families, Lesbian Mother Families, and in Families Created by Assisted Reproduction	429	(18)
Susan Golombok
Cultural, Social, and Maturational Influences on Childhood Amnesia	447	(20)
Michelle D. Leichtman
The Nature of Parents' Race-Related Communications to Children: A Developmental Perspective	467	(24)
Diane Hughes
Lisa Chen
Who Should Help Me Raise My Child? A Cultural Approach to Understanding Nonmaternal Child Care Decisions	491	(19)
Gilda A. Morelli
Heidi Verhoef
Behavioral Inhibition and Impulsive Aggressiveness: Insights from Studies with Rhesus Monkeys	510	(17)
Stephen J. Suomi
Index	527