The developing person through childhood and adolescence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Kathleen Stassen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Worth Publishers, [2014]
Edition:9th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. The beginnings
  • 1. Introduction
  • The scientific method
  • The nature-nurture debate
  • Sex differences
  • Culture, ethnicity, and race
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Mirror neurons
  • 2. Theories
  • Psychoanalytic theory: Freud and Erikson
  • Behaviorism: conditioning and social learning
  • Psychoanalytic versus behaviorist theories
  • Toilet training: how and when?
  • Cogintive theory: Piaget and information processing
  • Sociocultural theory: Vygotsky and beyond
  • Humanism and evolutionary theory
  • 3. Heredity and environment
  • Genes
  • Twins
  • Assisted reproduction
  • Epigenetics
  • Gene-gene interactions
  • Genotype and phenotype
  • Alcoholism
  • Nearsightedness
  • Chromosomal and genetic problems
  • Gene disorders
  • Genetic counseling and testing
  • Genetic testing for psychological disorders
  • 4. Prenatal development and birth
  • Prenatal growth
  • Germinal
  • Embryo
  • Fetus
  • Birth
  • Home births
  • Harmful substances
  • Risk analysis
  • Low birthweight
  • Complications during birth
  • The newborn
  • New fathers
  • New mothers
  • Bonding
  • pt. II. The first two years
  • 5. Biosocial development
  • Body changes
  • Body size
  • Sleep
  • Brain development
  • Face recognition
  • Harming the infant brain
  • Implications for caregivers
  • The senses
  • Motor skills
  • Cultural variations
  • Immunization
  • Nutrition
  • 6. Cognitve development
  • Sensorimotor intelligence
  • Circular reactions
  • Piaget and modern research
  • Affordances
  • Memory
  • Language
  • The universal sequence
  • First words
  • Cultural differences
  • Theories of language learning
  • 7. Psychosocial development
  • Emotional development
  • Self-awareness
  • Brain maturation and the emotions
  • Temperament
  • Psychoanalytic theory
  • Behaviorism
  • Cognitive theory
  • Sociocultural theory
  • Development of social bonds
  • Synchrony
  • Attachment
  • Social referencing
  • Infant day care.
  • Pt. III. Early childhood
  • 8. Biosocial development
  • Growth patterns
  • Nutrition
  • Brain development
  • Speed of thought
  • Connecting the brain's hemispheres
  • Planning and analyzing
  • Emotions and the brain
  • Gross motor skills
  • Fine motor skills
  • Artistic expression
  • Injuries and abuse
  • Avoidable injury
  • Prevention
  • 9. Cognitive development
  • Piaget: preoperational thought
  • Vygotsky: social learning
  • Theory-theory
  • Theory of mind
  • Language learning
  • Vocabulary explosion
  • Acquiring basic grammar
  • Learning two languages
  • Early-childhood education
  • Homes and schools
  • Child-centered programs
  • Teacher-directed programs
  • Intervention programs
  • 10. Psychosocial development
  • Emotional development
  • Initiative versus guilt
  • Motivation
  • Seeking emotional balance
  • Playmates
  • Cultural differences in play
  • Active play
  • Caregiving styles
  • The new media
  • Moral development
  • Nature and nurture
  • Empathy and antipathy
  • Discipline
  • Sex and gender
  • Theories of gender-role development
  • pt. IV. Middle childhood
  • 11. Biosocial development
  • Slower growth, greater strength
  • Physical activity
  • Childhood obesity
  • Asthma
  • Brain development
  • Coordinating connections
  • Measuring the mind
  • Attention-deficit and bipolar disorders
  • Drugs for children
  • Learning disabilities
  • Autistic spectrum disorders
  • Special education
  • Gifted and talented
  • 12. Cognitive development
  • Piaget and school-age children
  • Vygotsky and school-age children
  • Information processing
  • Language
  • Vocabulary
  • Differences in language learning
  • Teaching and learning
  • International schooling
  • In the United States
  • 13. Psychosocial development
  • Nature of the child
  • Industry and inferiority
  • Self-concept
  • Resilience and stress
  • Families and children
  • Shared and nonshared environments
  • Family function and family structure
  • Divorce
  • Family trouble
  • The culture of children
  • Bullies and victims
  • Children's moral values
  • Moral reasoning
  • What children value
  • The morality of child labor.
  • Pt. V. Adolescence
  • 14. Biosocial development
  • Puberty
  • Age and puberty
  • Nutrition
  • diet deficiencies
  • Eating disorders
  • Growing bigger and stronger
  • Sexual maturation
  • Problems with adolescent sex
  • Neurological development
  • 15. Cognitive development
  • Logic and self
  • Egocentrism
  • Formal operational thought
  • Intuition versus analysis
  • Thinking about religion
  • Dual processing and the brain
  • Technology and cognition
  • Learning via electronic technology
  • Addiction and technology
  • Cyberdanger
  • Teaching and learning
  • Middle School
  • The transition to a new school
  • High School
  • 16. Psychosocial development
  • Identity
  • Relationships with adults
  • Parents
  • Parents, genes, and risks
  • Peer power
  • Peer pressure
  • Romance
  • Sex education
  • Sadness and anger
  • Depression
  • Drug use and abuse
  • Harm from drugs
  • Epilogue: emerging adulthood
  • Biosocial development
  • Strong and active bodies
  • Fertility
  • Taking risks
  • Cognitive development
  • Postformal thought and brain development
  • Countering stereotypes
  • The effects of college
  • Psychosocial development
  • Identity achieved
  • Personality in emerging adulthood
  • Intimacy
  • Family forces.