Description

Table of contents:

1. An Introduction To Child Development: History, Themes, and Research Methods
2. Prenatal Development, Birth, and The Newborn Period
3. Biology and Behavior: Genetics, Brain Development, and Physical Development
4. Theories of Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core-Knowledge, Information Processing, and Sociocultural
5. Seeing, Thinking, and Doing Infancy
6. Development of Language and Symbol Use
7. Conceptual Development
8. Intelligence and Academic Achievement
9. Theories of Social Development: Psychoanalytic, Learning, Social Cognition, and Ecological
10. Emotional Development
11. Attachment to Others and Development of Self
12. The Family
13. Peer Relationships
14. Moral Development
15. Gender Development
16. Conclusions: Integrating Current Understanding Around the Seven Major Themes