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Child Development
Context, Culture, and Cascades
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
CONCEPTS IN ACTION VIDEOS
These short videos highlight important concepts in child development, bringing methods and concepts to life.
Ch. 1 Understanding Foundational Theories
Ch. 1 Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Theories
Ch. 2 Plasticity
Ch. 3 Periods of Prenatal Development
Ch. 4 Perceptual Integration
Ch. 5 Nativist Approaches to Infant Core Capacities
Ch. 6 Syntactic Development
Ch. 6 Social Cues to Word Meaning
Ch. 7 Identifying and Expressing Emotions
Ch. 7 Moral Goodness, Moral Evaluation, and Moral Retribution
Ch. 8 Brain Development and Children’s Growing Skills
Ch. 9 Inhibitory Control Tasks
Ch. 10 Classifying Types of Aggression
Ch. 11 Children’s Gross Motor Skills
Ch. 12 Strategies for Remembering
Ch. 13 Gender Stereotypes and Implicit Association Tests
Ch. 14 Adolescent Sleep
Ch. 15 Predictors of Adolescent Motivation
Ch. 16 Adolescent Self-Regulation
RESEARCH IN ACTION VIDEOS
These short videos explore classic and current research in child development.
Ch. 1 Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Ch. 1 Laboratory Experiments
Ch. 1 Reliability and Validity—Making Friends
Ch. 1 The Hidden Biases in WEIRD Psychology Research
Ch. 1 Ethical Issues in Psychological Research
Ch. 2 Foetal Susceptibility and the Dutch Winter Famine
Ch. 2 Studying the Brains of Tadpoles to Understand Neural Circuit Development
Ch. 2 Tools of Discovery
Ch. 2 The Dynamic Brain
Ch. 3 Human Evolutionary Adaptations
Ch. 3 How the Environment Affects Fertility, Pregnancy, and Childhood Development
Ch. 3 What We Learn Before We Are Born
Ch. 4 A Sample Movie Blurred to the Contrast Sensitivity of a 3-Month-Old
Ch. 4 Babies on the Brink
Ch. 4 Naturalistic Examples of Infant Moving/Singing
Ch. 4 Infant at 6 Months and Tests of Picking Up (Gesell Motor Milestones)
Ch. 4 Infant at 9 Months and Tests of Picking Up (Gesell Motor Milestones)
Ch. 4 Johnny & Jimmy
Ch. 5 Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Ch. 5 Symbolic Play—Child Alone
Ch. 5 Symbolic Play—Child with Mom
Ch. 5 Do Babies Have a Sense of Number?
Ch. 6 Infant Knowledge of Grammar
Ch. 6 Communication between Deaf Parents and Deaf Infants
Ch. 6 The Story of Genie, a Child Without Language
Ch. 6 Booksharing and Bookreading
Ch. 7 Social Smiles
Ch. 7 The Still-Face Experiment and Emotional Neglect
Ch. 7 Harlow’s Monkeys
Ch. 7 Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation
Ch. 8 Fine and Gross Motor Skill Development
Ch. 8 Is Height All in Our Genes?
Ch. 8 Treating Malnourished Children in Haiti with Medika Mamba
Ch. 8 Sleep-Deprived Kids
Ch. 8 Abuse Against Children
Ch. 9 Executive Function—The Brain's Control Center: Part 1
Ch. 9 Executive Function—The Brain's Control Center: Part 2
Ch. 9 Are all of Your Memories Real?
Ch. 10 Media and Aggression
Ch. 10 Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development
Ch. 11 Cursive Writing Sees Revival in NYC Schools
Ch. 11 Fighting Malnutrition
Ch. 11 Mapping a Way Out of Childhood Obesity
Ch. 11 Role of Sleep in Brain Consolidation of Learning and Memory
Ch. 11 The Brain and Learning
Ch. 12 Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage Revisited
Ch. 12 Learning Mnemonics—Can You Really Hack Your Memory?
Ch. 12 Should We Disband Standardized Testing?
Ch. 12 Mindset—The New Psychology of Success
Ch. 13 Culture and Emotion
Ch. 13 Intergroup Contact
Ch. 13 Pressured Parents, Stressed Out Kids
Ch. 13 Can These Psychology Strategies Prevent Bullying?
Ch. 14 Physical Development During Adolescence
Ch. 14 Puberty—The Secular Trend
Ch. 14 Why Eating Disorders Are Way More Common Than You Think
Ch. 14 81% Of The World's 11-To-17-Year-Olds Aren't Active Enough
Ch. 14 What Would Happen If You Didn't Sleep?
Ch. 15 Grit—The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Ch. 15 Why You Might Not Want to Be ‘The Smart Kid’
Ch. 15 Countering Stereotype Threat
Ch. 16 Why Is it Important to Express Your Feelings?
Ch. 16 Adolescent Risk Taking
Ch. 16 Adolescent Egocentrism
Ch. 16 The Science of Attraction
Ch. 16 Social Anxiety in Adolescence
Ch. 16 Are You Really Addicted to Your Phone?
Ch. 16 Multitasking and Overstimulation
AUTHOR VIDEOS
Ch. 1 Designing a Study
Ch. 1 Hypothesis-Driven Research and Discovery-Based Science
Ch. 2 Brain-Experience and Gene-Environment Interactions
AUTHOR CONTEXTS VIDEOS
These short videos, featuring the author, complement selected context and culture sections in chapters to emphasize key points.
Based Science
Ch. 3 The First Context of Development
Ch. 4 Contexts of Taste Perception
Ch. 5 Universal Learning Processes versus Contextual Influences on Individual Differences
Ch. 6 Social Supports of Infant Language Learning
Ch. 6 Dual-Language Learners
Ch. 7 Contexts of Infant Attachment
Ch. 8 Contexts of Obesity
Ch. 9 Contextual Influences on Children’s School Readiness
Ch. 10 Contexts of Racial and Ethnic Identity
Ch. 11 Contexts of Physical Activity
Ch. 12 School Context of Children’s Academic Engagement and Performance
Ch. 13 Contexts of Emotional Development and Corporal Punishment
Ch. 14 Contexts of Eating Disorders
Ch. 15 Contexts of Neighborhood and Academic Achievement
Ch. 16 Social Media Context of Adolescent Development
AUTHOR CASCADES VIDEOS
These short videos, featuring the author, complement end-of-chapter sections on Developmental Cascades, emphasizing key points related to these important concepts.
Ch. 3 Cascades from Maternal Stress
Ch. 4 Cascades from Perceptual and Motor Development
Ch. 5 Cascades from Infant Information Processing
Ch. 6 Cascades from Language to Other Developmental Domains
Ch. 7 Cascades from Infant Emotion Regulation
Ch. 8 Cascades from Sleep
Ch. 9 Cascades from Social-Cognitive Skills
Ch. 10 Cascades from Young Children’s Emotion Understanding and Regulation
Ch. 11 Cascades from Physical Activity
Ch. 12 Cascades from Academic Engagement and Performance
Ch. 13 Cascades from Peer Relationships
Ch. 14 Cascades from Pubertal Timing
Ch. 15 Cascades from Academic Motivation
Ch. 16 Cascades from Relationships With Others
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