Child Psychology Module 1
Child Development, Heredity, Conception, and Prenatal Development
History, Theories, and Methods
What Is Child Development?
Coming to Terms with Terms
Theories of Child Development
Controversies in Child Development
How Do We Study Child Development?
The Influence of Heredity on Development: The Nature of Nature
Heredity and the Environment: Nature versus Nurture
Conception: Against All Odds
The Germinal Stage: Wanderings
The Embryonic and Fetal Stages
Environmental Influences on Prenatal Development
Child Psychology Module 2
Birth, The Newborn Baby, and Infancy
The Stages of Birth
Methods of Childbirth
Birth Problems
The Postpartum Period
Characteristics of Neonates
Physical Growth and Development
Development of the Brain and Nervous System
Motor Development: How Moving
Sensory and Perceptual Development: Taking in the World
Cognitive Development: Jean Paget
Information Processing
Individual Differences in Intelligence among Infants
Testing Infants: Why and with What?
Instability of Intelligence Scores Attained in Infancy
Use of Visual Recognition Memory: An Effort to Enhance Predictability
Language Development
Attachment: Bonds That Endure
When Attachment Fails
Day Care
Emotional and Personality Development
Child Psychology Module 3
Early and Middle Childhood
Growth Patterns
Motor Development
Nutrition
Health and Illness
Sleep
Elimination Disorders
Jean Pagets Preoperational Stage
Factors in Cognitive Development
Theory of Mind: What Is the Mind? How Does it Work?
Development of Memory: Creating Documents, Storing Them, and Retrieving Them
Language Development: Why Daddy Goed Away
Influences on Development: Parents, Siblings, and Peers
Social Behaviors: In the World, among Others
Personality and Emotional Development
Development of Gender Roles and Sexual Differences
Physical Development of Middle Childhood
Child Psychology Module 4
More on Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Piaget: The Concrete-Operational Stage
Moral Development: The Child as a Juror
Information Processing: Learning, Remembering, Problem Solving
Intellectual Development, Creativity, and Achievement
Language Development and Literacy
Theories of Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
The Family, Peer Relationships, and The School
Social and Emotional Problems
Puberty: The Biological Eruption
Emerging Sexuality and the Risks of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Health in Adolescence
The Adolescent in Thought: My, My, How Formal
The Adolescent in Judgment: Moral Development
The Adolescent in School
The Adolescent at Work: Career Development and Work Experience
Development of Identity and Self-Concept: Who Am I? (and Who Else?)
Relationships with Parents and Peers
Sexuality: When? What? (How?) Who? Where? and Why? Not to Mention, Should I?
Juvenile Delinquency
Suicide: When the Adolescent Has Nothing Except Everything to Lose
Epilogue: Emerging Adulthood Bridging Adolescence and the Life Beyond |
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