Child Development: A Topical Approach

I. INTRODUCTION. 1. An Introduction to Child Development. 2. Research in Child Development. II. FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT. 3. Genetics and Prenatal Development. 4. Birth and the Newborn Infant. 5. Physical Growth. III. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. 6. Cognitive Growth: The Approaches of Piaget and Vygotsky. 7. Cognitive Growth: Information-Processing Approaches. 8. Language Development. 9. Intelligence. IV. SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT. 10. Social and Emotional Development. 11. Development of the Self. 12. Moral Development and Aggression. V. LIVING WITH OTHERS. 13. Gender and Sexuality. 14. Friends and Family. 15. Schooling, Culture, and Society: Living in a Multicultural World.