Child Development

ers, program content, family interaction, and oppor- tunities for other activities moderate television’s effects on children’s a ...

Vol. 4: Child Psychology in Practice, edited by Jane B. Smith. New York: Wiley, 1997. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kids and Media a ...

The second element common to all temperament characteristics is that these differences are inherent in the person. Temperament i ...

tional problems compared to the uninhibited chil- dren. Others have found that children who withdraw from situations or who thro ...

ous, so researchers will measure changes in children’s physiology as well. Shy children, for instance, tend to experience a high ...

temperament styles. Attachment researchers counter that the procedure measures the relationship be- tween the caregiver and the ...

McCormick, Marie C., and Joanna E. Siegel, eds. Prenatal Care: Ef- fectiveness and Implementation. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Un ...

Behavior Genetic Model Behavior genetic models offer a different ap- proach to answering the perennial nature-nurture de- bate. ...

Middle childhood brings a respite to the child, a time Freud called the latency stage. According to Freud, from age five to thir ...

mathematical and scientific operations; and modify their comments to reflect the perspective of the listen- er. Beginning in ado ...

Burman, Erica. Deconstructing Developmental Psychology. London: Routledge, 1994. Burman, Erica. ‘‘Continuities and Discontinuiti ...

and identify a viewpoint for the doll specified by a pic- ture of the display. Some children around age four did not distinguish ...

to facilitate the optimal development of children. As children grow, the use of toys typically changes from simple and physical ...

velop and most outgrow at an early age. Mostly anec- dotal evidence of twin ESP typically focuses on one twin feeling phantom pa ...

Three generations of identical female Russian twins. There is some evidence that identical twins are more likely to be dressed a ...

ences fraternal twinning rates. Maternal age can af- fect parenting style and congenital anomalies. Some fraternal twin parents ...

U ULTRASOUND Ultrasound is a method of assessing the fetus using low-frequency sound waves to reflect off fetal tissue. The ultr ...

V VIDEO GAMES Some early video games, as well as many recent ones, were and are self-consciously educational and proso- cial. Mo ...

The Incidence of Violence Affecting Youth After their peak in 1993, national crime rates, in- cluding juvenile crime rates, decl ...

more likely to ‘‘attempt’’ suicide. Between 8 percent and 9 percent of all youths have attempted suicide. Clinical and epidemiol ...