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Advances in child development and behavior
1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : illustrations.
Annotation Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 30 discusses early recall memory, balance and motor learning, sexual selection, emotion-related regulation, maternal sensitivity and attachment, and influences of friends.
Front Cover; Advances in Child Development and Behavior; Copyright Page; Content; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Learning to Keep Balance; I. Introduction; II. Learning to Keep Balance: Sway Model of Balance Control; III. Flexibility and Specificity of Motor Learning; IV. How Development May Constrain Motor Learning; References; Chapter 2. Sexual Selection and Human Life History; I. Introduction; II. Natural Selection and Life History; III. Sexual Selection; IV. Life History and Sexual Selection; V. Human Developmental Sex Differences; VI. Conclusion; References
Chapter 3. Developments in Early Recall Memory: Normative Trends and Individual DifferencesI. Initiating the Study of Early Recall Memory; II. Characterizing Recall Memory in the First Two Years of Life; III. Individual Differences in Long-Term Recall: Children's Gender, Children's Language Proficiency, and Variability in Initial Learning; IV. Individual Differences in Long-Term Recall: Children's Temperament Characteristics; V. Children's Temperament and Mothers' Language as Interacting Sources of Individual Differences in Long-Term Recall; VI. Conclusions and Implications; References
Chapter 4. Intersensory Redundancy Guides Early Perceptual and Cognitive DevelopmentI. Introduction: Historical Overview and Perspectives on Perceptual Development; II. Amodal Relations and the Multimodal Nature of Early Experience; III. Unimodal-Multimodal Dichotomy in Developmental Research; IV. Neural and Behavioral Evidence for Intersensory Interactions; V. Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis: Toward an Integrated Theory of Perceptual Development; VI. Summary and Directions for Future Study of Perceptual Development; References; Chapter 5. Children's Emotion-Related Regulation
I. Definition of Emotion-Related RegulationII. A Brief Review of Views of Emotion Regulation in Theories of Emotion; III. Conceptual Issues; IV. Age-Related Trends in Emotion-Relevant Regulation; V. Measurement of Emotion Regulation; VI. Relation of Emotion-Relevant Regulation to Quality of Social Functioning; VII. Relations of Dispositional Resiliency to Effortful and Reactive Control and Socioemotional Functioning; VIII. Summary and Future Directions; References; Chapter 6. Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment in Atypical Groups; I. Introduction; II. Organization of Attachment
III. Maternal SensitivityIV. Role of Child Characteristics; V. Atypical Groups of Mothers; VI. Conclusions; References; Chapter 7. Influences of Friends and Friendships: Myths, Truths, and Research Recommendations; I. Introduction; II. Influences of Friends' Characteristics; III. Influences of Friendship Quality; IV. Influences of Friends' Characteristics in Friendships Differing in Quality; V. Conclusions and Implications; References; Author Index; Subject Index; Contents of Previous Volumes
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Advances in child development and behavior. Vol. 30
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