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    Child development : an active learning approach / Laura E. Levine, Joyce Munsch.
    by Levine, Laura E.
    Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2011.
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  • ISBN: 
    9781412989183 (miscellaneous (3 hole punch))
    1412989183 (miscellaneous (3 hole punch))
    9781412968508 (pbk.)
    141296850X (pbk.)
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    xxix, 575, [95] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
    Contents: 
    About the authors -- Preface -- Part 1: Understanding development: Why And How We Study Children And Adolescents -- 1: Introduction: Issues in child development -- Why we study the development of children and adolescents -- Childhood-the first step in the process of development -- Impact of early experience on later development -- Impact of later experience -- Journey Of Research: Attachment and its consequences -- Understanding how development happens -- Domains of development -- Issues in the field of development -- Relative influence of nature and nurture -- Continuous versus stage like development -- Stability versus change -- Adaptive and maladaptive development -- Individual differences and diversity -- Role of the child in development -- How we study the development of children and adolescents -- Research methods -- Journey Of Research: From baby diaries to structural equation modeling -- Being a good consumer of developmental information -- Know the source of your information -- Something old, something new -- Become a critical thinker -- Beware generalizations -- Perceptual bias -- It's all common sense -- Active Learning: Testing your knowledge of child development -- How we apply child development knowledge to support optimal development -- Parents and family members -- Child development professionals -- Active Learning: How much do you know about careers in child development? -- Government, organizations, and citizens-creating social policy -- Active Learning: Social policy affecting children and adolescents -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- 2: Theories of development -- Basic principle and applications -- Why are theories important? -- How do developmental theories differ? -- How does change happen? -- Why does change happen? -- Theories of child and adolescent development -- Psychoanalytic theory -- Active Learning: Free association -- Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Stages -- Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages -- Modern applications of Psychoanalytic Theory -- Behaviorism and social cognitive theory -- John B Watson and Classical Conditioning -- Active Learning: Understanding the process of classical conditioning -- Modern applications of classical conditioning -- B F Skinner and operant conditioning -- Schedules of reinforcement -- Active Learning: Reward yourself! -- Shaping behaviors -- Negative reinforcement -- Punishment and extinction -- Modern applications of operant conditioning -- Albert Bandura and social cognitive theory -- Modern applications of social cognitive theory -- Theories of cognitive development -- Jean Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory -- What is a schema? -- How do we use schemas? -- Stages of development -- Modern applications of Piaget's theory -- Lev Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory -- Modern applications of Vygotsky's theory -- Information processing -- Active Learning: Encoding processes -- Modern applications of information processing -- Evolutionary theories -- Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution -- Ethology -- Active Learning: Rough-and-tumble play -- Sociobiology -- Modern applications of evolutionary theory -- Ecological theory -- Active Learning: Examples of ecological systems -- Modern applications of ecological theory -- Journey Of Research: Theories in historical context -- Biological approaches to understanding child development -- Maturational theory -- Dynamic systems theory -- Neuropsychology and behavioral genomics -- Culture and developmental theory -- Conclusion -- Active Learning: Mnemonics (memory devices) -- Chapter summary -- 3: How we study children and adolescents -- Scientific method -- Basic and applied research -- Developing hypotheses -- Active Learning: Scientific method-forming a hypothesis -- Operationalizing concepts -- Active Learning: Scientific method-operationalizing concepts -- Reliability and validity -- Sampling and representative samples -- Active Learning: Scientific method-sampling -- Methods and measures -- Observations -- Active Learning: Observation or interpretation? -- Journey Of Research: Doing observational research -- Self-report measures -- Journey Of Research: Children's eyewitness testimony -- Standardized tests -- Journey Of Research: Standardized testing -- Physiological measures -- Archival records -- Case studies -- Active Learning: Scientific method-measures -- How research is designed -- Experimental designs: identifying the causes of behavior -- How experiments are done -- Active Learning: Experimental method -- Natural or Quasi experiments -- Correlational designs -- Active Learning: Positive and negative correlations -- Journey Of Research: Direction of effects -- Active Learning: Scientific method-research methods -- Developmental designs -- Longitudinal research -- Cross-sectional research -- Cross-sequential research -- Active Learning: Developmental research designs -- Interpreting the results of a study -- Replication of results -- Ethics in research with children and adolescents -- Finding and assessing information about development -- Active Learning: Evaluating information on the web -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Part 2: Beginnings -- 4: How children develop: nature through nurture -- Journey Of Research: Genes and Environment -- Study of genetics and behavior -- How we study genes and behavior -- Molecular genetics -- Behavioral genetics -- Behavioral genomics -- How do genes work? -- Our genetic beginnings -- Chromosomes, genes, DNA, and bases (GATC) -- Mendelian inheritance: dominant and recessive genes -- Active Learning: Understanding the inheritance of Tay-Sachs Disease -- One behavior, many genes; one gene, many effects -- Genetic disorders -- Single gene disorders -- Problems associated with the Y chromosome -- Chromosome disorders -- Multifactorial inheritance disorders -- Genetic counseling and testing -- Gene therapy -- Interaction of genes and environment -- Canalization -- How the environment shapes gene expression -- Uncertainties in the study of gene-environment interaction -- How genes shape the environment -- Behavioral genetics -- Studies of adopted children -- Active Learning: Alcoholism, genes, and environment -- Research comparing identical and fraternal twins -- Identical twins reared apart -- Active Learning: Twins separated at birth -- More recent research approaches -- Study of culture and behavior -- What is culture? -- Stereotyping -- Difference versus deficit -- Active Learning: Cultural competence and grief -- Individualism and collectivism -- Active Learning: What are your culturally based beliefs? -- Transmission of culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- 5: Prenatal development, birth, and the newborn -- Prenatal development -- Three stages of prenatal development -- Germinal stage (conception to 2 weeks) -- Infertility -- Embryonic stage (2 weeks to 2 months) -- Fetal stage (2 months to birth) -- Active Learning: Old wives' tale or scientific fact? -- Health and risk in pregnancy -- Three trimester of pregnancy -- Active Learning: Interview with a mother -- Expectant father -- Miscarriage -- Maternal health and well-being -- Maternal diet -- Teratogens -- Alcohol and smoking -- Journey Of Research: Understanding the effects of alcohol on a pregnancy -- Prescription and over-the-counter drugs -- Active Learning: Safety of medications during pregnancy -- Illegal drugs -- Diseases -- Maternal stress -- Birth experience -- Labor and delivery -- Birthing options -- Birth experience of the baby -- Birth experience of the mother -- Birth experience of the father -- Couple's experience -- Newborn -- Newborn capabilities -- Infant states -- Risks to infants' health and well-being -- Infant mortality -- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) -- Prematurity and low birth weight -- Journey Of Research: From child hatchery to modern NICU -- Transition to parenthood -- Active Learning: When partners become parents -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Part 3: Building blocks of development: how children grow -- 6: Physical development: the body and the brain -- Brain development -- Active Learning: Brain and body -- Structures of the brain -- Developmental processes -- Neurons and synaptic connections -- Plasticity of the brain: experience-expectant versus experience-dependent brain development -- Myelination of neurons in the brain -- Active Learning: teenage brain development -- Disabilities related to brain development -- Cerebral palsy -- Autism -- Journey Of Research: Searching for the cause of autism -- Active Learning: Community resources -- Motor development -- Infant reflexes -- Development of motor skills -- Myelination of motor neurons -- Variability in motor milestones -- Active Learning: Checklist of motor sill development -- Importance of physical activity -- Sensation and perception -- Mirror neurons -- Development of the five sense -- Vision -- Hearing -- Active Learning: Prenatal hearing -- Smell -- Taste -- Touch -- Cross-model transfer of perception -- Active Learning: How toys stimulate babies' senses -- Sensory preferences and connection to caregivers -- Body growth and changes -- Infant proportions -- Active Learning: Head-to-body proportions -- Changing bodily proportions -- Active Learning: Your growth in childhood -- Teething and "the tooth fairy" -- Sexual development -- Puberty -- Timing of puberty -- Active Learning : Timing of puberty -- Rites of passage from childhood to adulthood -- Active Learning: Rites of passage -- Risks of sexual maturation -- Adolescent pregnancies -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Nutrition -- Breastfeeding -- Healthy eating -- Malnourishment -- Obesity -- Eating disorders -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Cognitive development -- What is cognitive? -- Journey Of Research: Binet's intelligence test and its unintended consequences -- Theories of cognitive development -- Active Learning: Organizing by cognitive schema -- Piaget's stages of cognitive development -- Sensorimotor stage (birth-2 years) -- Active Lea
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