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The development of children

Lightfoot, Cynthia. (Author). Cole, Michael, 1938- (Added Author). Cole, Sheila. (Added Author).

Summary: The Development of Children has long been acclaimed for its authoritative chronological exploration of how the lives of children are shaped by biological and cultural factors. In this thoroughly updated new edition, lead author Cynthia Lightfoot builds on the legacy of original authors Michael and Sheila Cole, offering a lively, engaging, and always accessible examination of child development as a process involving the whole child within multiple, mutually influencing contexts. Throughout, the emphasis is on how the interaction of biology and culture contributes both to the universal pathways of development shared by all children and to the diverse developmental patterns that unfold in the lives of individual children.

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ISBN: 9781429243285
ISBN: 1429243287
ISBN: 9781429243322
ISBN: 1429243325
ISBN: 9781464128882
ISBN: 146412888X
Physical Description: print
1 v. (various pagings) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: New York, NY : Worth Publishers, c2013.

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General Note:	New February 2014. Supporting ECE program. Rev. ed. of: Development of children / Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole, Cynthia Lightfoot. c2005. 5th ed.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	ch. 1 Study of Human Development -- Developmental Science -- Periods of Development -- Domains of Development -- Contexts of Development -- Children, Society, and Science -- Historical Beliefs About Children and Childhood -- Emergence of Developmental Science -- New Field of Developmental Science -- Central Issues of Developmental Science -- Questions About the Sources of Development -- Questions About Plasticity -- Questions About Continuity/Discontinuity -- Questions About Individual Differences -- Theories of Development -- Theory in Developmental Science -- Grand Theories -- Modern Theories -- Methods for Studying Development -- Goals of Developmental Research -- Criteria for Developmental Research -- Methods of Data Collection -- Research Designs -- Ethical Standards -- Looking Ahead -- Summary -- pt. I IN THE BEGINNING -- ch. 2 Biocultural Foundations -- Inheriting Culture -- Tools of Culture -- Processes of Cultural Inheritance -- Complexity of Culture -- Biological Inheritance -- Genes and Traits -- Evolution's Process of Natural Selection -- Genetic Inheritance Through Sexual Reproduction -- Laws of Genetic Inheritance -- Mutations and Genetic Abnormalities -- Phenotype: From Genes to Traits -- Heritability -- Genotypes, Phenotypes, and Human Behavior -- Coevolution of Culture and Biology -- Lactose Tolerance -- Sickle-Cell Anemia -- Retracing the Laetoli Footsteps -- Summary -- ch. 3 Prenatal Development and Birth -- Periods of Prenatal Development -- Germinal Period -- Embryonic Period -- Fetal Period -- Maternal Conditions and Prenatal Development -- Maternal Stress -- Nutritional Influences -- Teratogens: Environmental Sources of Birth Defects -- Drugs -- Infections and Other Health Conditions -- Birth -- Stages of Labor -- Cultural Variations in Childbirth -- Childbirth in the United States -- Newborn's Condition -- Assessing the Baby's Viability -- Problems and Complications -- Developmental Consequences -- Beginning the Parent-Child Relationship -- Baby's Appearance -- Social Expectations -- Summary -- pt. II INFANCY -- ch. 4 First 3 Months -- Physical Growth -- Measuring Body Growth -- Growth of the Skull -- Brain Development -- Neurons and Networks of Neurons -- Structure of the Central Nervous System -- Experience and Development of the Brain -- Sensing the Environment -- Methods of Evaluating Infant Sensory Capacities -- Hearing -- Vision -- Taste and Smell -- Intermodal Perception -- Organization of Behavior -- Reflexes -- From Reflex to Coordinated Action -- Reaching -- Piaget's Theory of Developing Action -- Learning Theories of Developing Action -- Temperament -- Becoming Coordinated with the Social World -- Sleeping -- Feeding -- Crying -- Summing Up the First 3 Months -- Summary -- ch. 5 Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy -- Physical Growth -- Size and Shape -- Musculoskeletal System -- Brain Development -- Brain and Behavior -- Brain and Experience -- Motor Development -- Fine Motor Skills -- Gross Motor Skills -- Role of Practice in Motor Development -- Control of Elimination -- Cognitive Development: The Great Debate -- Sensorimator Development -- Reproducing Interesting Events (Substage 3) -- Emergence of Intentionality (Substage 4) -- Exploring by Experimenting (Substage 5) -- Representation (Substage 6) -- Conceptual Development -- Understanding the Permanence of Objects -- Understanding Other Properties of the Physical World -- Reasoning About Objects -- Growth of Attention and Memory -- Developing Attention -- Developing Memory -- Implications -- Summary -- ch. 6 Social and Emotional Development in Infancy -- Nature of Infant Emotions and Emotional Expressions -- Theories of Emotional Development -- Infant Emotions and Social Life -- Intersubjectivity and the Brain -- Infant-Caregiver Emotional Relationship -- Explanations of Attachment -- Phases of Attachment -- Patterns of Attachment -- Causes of Variations in Patterns of Attachment -- Attachment Patterns and Later Development -- Changing Nature of Communication -- Social Referencing -- Following a Caregiver's Signs of Interest -- Beginnings of Language Comprehension and Speech -- Sense of Self -- Self-Recognition -- Self as Agent -- Emergence of Self-Conscious Emotions -- Developing Trust and Autonomy -- Implications -- Summary -- pt. III EARLY CHILDHOOD -- ch. 7 Language Acquisition -- Power of Language -- Keys to the World of Language -- Biological Key to Language -- Environmental Key to Language -- Basic Domains of Language Acquisition -- Phonological Development -- Semantic Development -- Grammar Development -- Pragmatic Development -- Explanations of Language Acquisition -- Biological Explanations -- Social and Cultural Explanations -- Cognitive Approaches -- Reconsidering the Keys to Language -- Summary -- ch. 8 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood -- Physical and Motor Development -- Changing Body -- Motor Development -- Health -- Brain Development -- Preoperational Development -- Centration -- Problem of Uneven Levels of Performance -- Information-Processing Approaches to Cognitive Development -- Cognitive Development in Privileged Domains -- Domain of Physics -- Domain of Psychology -- Domain of Biology -- Explaining Domain-Specific Cognitive Development -- Cognitive Development and Culture -- Cultural Scripts -- Cultural Context and the Unevenness of Development -- Reconciling Alternative Approaches -- Summary -- ch. 9 Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood -- Identity Development -- Sex-Role Identity -- Ethnic Identity -- Personal Identity -- New Moral World -- Psychodynamic View -- Cognitive-Developmental View -- Social Domain View -- Developing Self-Regulation -- Regulating Thought and Action -- Self-Regulation and Play -- Regulating Emotions -- Understanding Aggression -- Development of Aggression -- What Causes and Controls Aggression? -- Developing Prosocial Behaviors -- Empathy -- Sympathy -- Taking One's Place in the Social Group -- Summary -- ch. 10 Contexts of Development -- Family Context -- Biocultural Origins of Family -- Parenting Practices -- Role of Siblings -- Family Diversity -- Distressed Families -- Nonparental Child Care -- Varieties of Child Care -- Developmental Effects of Child Care -- Neighborhoods and Communities -- Community and Culture -- Distressed Communities -- Media Contexts -- Print Media -- Television -- Interactive Media -- Contexts, Risk, and Resilience -- Summary -- pt. IV MIDDLE CHILDHOOD -- ch. 11 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood -- Physical and Motor Development -- Patterns of Growth -- Motor Development -- Brain Development -- Concrete-Operational Development -- Conservation -- Classification -- Planning -- Metacognition -- Limitations of Concrete Operations -- Information-Processing Approaches -- Role of Memory -- Thinking About Memory -- Increased Control of Attention -- Executive Function -- Role of Social and Cultural Contexts -- Is the Acquisition of Conservation Universal? -- Cultural Variations in the Use of Memory Strategies -- Cultural Variations in Planning -- Individual Differences in Cognitive Development -- Measuring Intelligence -- Persistent Questions About Intelligence -- Reconsidering the Cognitive Changes in Middle Childhood -- Summary -- ch. 12 School as a Context for Development -- Contexts of Learning -- School Readiness -- Precursors to Reading and Writing -- Precursors to Learning Mathematics -- Role of Family -- Preschools -- In the Classroom -- Social Organization of the Classroom and Instructional Design -- Barriers to School Success -- Cognitive Consequences of Schooling -- School-Cutoff Strategy -- Comparing Schooled and Nonschooled Children -- Assessing the Second-Generation Impact of Schooling -- Contemporary Challenges in a Globalizing World -- Culture of School -- Language of School -- Culturally Responsive Classroom Strategies -- Outside the School -- Summary -- ch. 13 Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood -- New Sense of Self -- Changing Conceptions of the Self -- Self-Esteem -- Moral Development -- Piaget's Theory of Moral Development -- Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development -- Prosocial Moral Reasoning -- Social Domain Theory -- Moral Reasoning and Theories of Mind -- Peer Relationships -- Peer Relations and Social Status -- Competition and Cooperation Among Peers -- Relations Between Boys and Girls -- Friendship: A Special Type of Relationship -- Influence of Parents -- Changing Expectations -- Parents and Peers -- Divorce -- Reconsidering Middle Childhood -- Summary -- pt. V ADOLESCENCE -- ch. 14 Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence -- Adolescents and Society -- Historical Views -- Adolescents in Modern Society -- Biological Theories of Adolescent Development -- G. Stanley Hall -- Sigmund Freud -- Modern Theories of Biological Development -- Puberty -- Growth Spurt -- Sexual Development -- Brain Development -- Neuro-Hormonal System -- Timing of Puberty -- Puberty and Health -- Cognitive Development -- Piaget's Theory of Formal Operations -- Information-Processing Approaches -- Sociocultural Approaches -- Moral Development -- Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Reasoning -- Gilligan's Theory of Moral Reasoning --