The child

"The child" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Some basic concepts. The study of child development -- Different ways of studying child development -- Heredity and environment. Nature versus nurture -- Basic environmental influences -- The workings of heredity -- Interactions between heredity and environment -- Important theories of development. Early views of development -- The psychoanalytic viewpoint -- The cognitive-developmental approach -- Behaviorism -- Social learning theory -- Will the right theory please step forward? -- From conception to birth. Development in the prenatal period -- Factors that influence prenatal development -- Birth -- Alternative methods of childbirth -- The baby. The characteristics of the newborn baby -- The perceptual world of the infant -- Motor development -- From infancy to toddlerhood: physical growth -- The first social relationships. Parent-infant interactions -- Attachment -- The beginnings of intelligence and language. Cognitive development in infancy -- Variations in intelligence: infancy and later -- Acquiring language -- The preschool child: physical, motor, and perceptual development. You’ve come a long way, baby! -- Physical growth -- Motor development -- Development of the brain -- Perceptual development -- Personality and social development in the preschool period. “Good” and “bad” behavior -- Girls and boys: alike or different? -- Play and imagination -- Preschoolers think and communicate. Representational thought -- Characteristics of preoperational thinking -- Intelligence -- Language development -- The school-age child: physical and mental development. Physical changes and perceptual-motor skills -- The transition to operational thought -- Development of the higher mental processes -- Learning in school. Intelligence and achievement -- Other factors affecting achievement -- Learning to read -- Getting along with oneself and with others. Socialization in middle childhood -- Relationships with other children -- Altruism, self-control, and morality -- Childhood’s end. Physical development -- Cognitive development -- Parents, peers, and the struggle for independence -- Sex and sexuality -- Becoming an adult. Milestones of late adolescence -- Identity formation -- Sex, romance, and selecting a mate -- Occupational choice.

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