Child Development

at the end of pregnancy reflects the historical roots of prenatal care in the detection of preeclampsia/ eclampsia, a systemic h ...

mester, compared to 73.3 percent of black, 74.3 per- cent of Hispanic, and 83.1 percent of Asian mothers. More comprehensive uti ...

birthweight and infant mortality. More recent, rigor- ous studies, however, have not generally demonstrat- ed significant associ ...

Bibliography Alexander, Greg, and Carol Korenbrot. ‘‘The Role of Prenatal Care in Preventing Low Birth Weight.’’ The Future of C ...

During an ultrasound a doctor uses a device in which sound waves detect bones and tissue in a woman’s uterus. Ultrasounds can be ...

and the fetus even sleeps and wakes and keeps almost regular hours. In month six the eyelids can open, and the fetus can open an ...

TABLE 1 SOURCE: Neil J. Salkind. ture rupture of the amniotic sac, and fetal deaths and deaths of newborns. Women who smoke duri ...

get potential female AIDS victims to take the proper precautions and avoid sexual relationships with high- risk males, usually t ...

produce a large amount of antibodies, but the risk in- creases with each pregnancy. In the past, erythroblas- tosis was always f ...

History and Demographics Preschool programs began in earnest in the Unit- ed States during the first quarter of the twentieth ce ...

The Head Start program served as a preschool model to provide equal educational opportunities for ‘‘at risk’’ children. (Shelley ...

ble to compare countries in terms of these modal phi- losophies or practices, provided that one is careful to avoid overgenerali ...

istic act of risking one’s life to warn or aid another. Because many of these behaviors are found in a vari- ety of other animal ...

R RACIAL DIFFERENCES Discussing racial differences in the field of psychology is problematic. The term ‘‘race’’ can be defined a ...

can identify that is responsible for race. No such markers exist for all members of any one race. No genes or hereditary factors ...

Changes in the ‘‘face’’ of America demand that individuals try to understand developmental processes operating in children from ...

tive—the idea that minority children are inherently deficient or pathologic in some way—toward adopt- ing race-homogenous framew ...

After reading a story to a child give her the op- portunity to talk about the story. She can tell you her favorite part of the s ...

As part of reading development, children must learn that the written word is made up of letters that are symbols for the sounds ...

fully understood. For example, the tonic neck reflex is where an infant forms fists with both hands and usu- ally turns her head ...