Child Development

G GAY- AND LESBIAN-HEADED FAMILIES Openly gay and lesbian people are choosing to have children in increasing numbers, although t ...

friends, toys, classes taken in middle school, and voca- tion all are influenced by sex. Finally, the study of sex, gender devel ...

The years from about age two to age six are crucial in the development of gender roles. During these years, children become awar ...

Finally, cognitive developmental theory under- scores the importance of understanding what it means to be a boy or girl in the d ...

Bridges, Judith S. ‘‘Pink or Blue: Gender-Stereotypic Perceptions of Infants as Conveyed by Birth Congratulations Cards.’’ Psy- ...

GENOTYPE The term ‘‘genotype’’ refers to the specific genetic makeup of an individual and is often used with refer- ence to alle ...

other psychologists because he did not readily ac- knowledge that there are individual differences in child development, and his ...

tion coaches’’ rather than being dismissive, disap- proving, or laissez-faire. While Ginott’s influence is evident in works by G ...

Bibliography Chumlea, William Cameron. ‘‘Growth and Development.’’ In Patri- cia M. Queen and Carol E. Land eds., Handbook of Pe ...

H HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY (1844–1924) Granville Stanley Hall, the first president of the American Psychological Association, was ...

Granville Stanley Hall (sitting center) was the first president of American Psychological Association. (Corbis-Bettmann) Bibliog ...

HARLOW, HARRY (1905–1981) Harry Harlow received his B.A. and Ph.D. in psychol- ogy from Stanford University and then joined the ...

positive effects on children’s school performance de- clined in subsequent years. But Head Start ‘‘gradu- ates’’ are more likely ...

If their health problems are neglected, children may lose out on important developmental activities. Over time, this loss can pr ...

come program as a result of welfare reform re- main enrolled in Medicaid; eliminate asset testing to determine Medicaid eligibi ...

communities in the United States. Its original goal was to reduce infant mortality by 50 percent through community-driven strate ...

children in the SEE group achieved higher scores. The performance of the SEE children was closer to the English scores of hearin ...

matical Analysis of Elicited Language-Preschool Sen- tence Level (GAEL-P) (is a test that specifically analyzes the English skil ...

Most of these systems share the common feature of adapting some ASL signs for vocabulary items. They invent new signs, for examp ...

Teachers need to use a child’s name and articu- late clearly and slowly when directing speech to a hearing-impaired child. They ...