Child Development

Extended Family Relations and Social Support Networks African Americans are more likely to reside in ex- tended family household ...

Bibliography Duncan, Greg J., and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, eds. Consequences of Growing Up Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1 ...

Direct aggression, especially physically active ag- gression, is more common among animals. Actors who express indirect aggressi ...

Aggressive play, like wrestling, can lead to aggressive behavior as children get older. (Nick Kelsh/Corbis) hypothesis also hold ...

Peer estimation of aggression was found to be in- ternally more consistent than self-estimation. This was true of both sexes for ...

Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth’s conceptual contributions and empirical findings revolutionized how psychologists think about in ...

Publications by Ainsworth Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, ...

safe, amniocentesis can trigger cramping, leakage of amniotic fluid, vaginal bleeding, and it may increase the risk of miscarria ...

Transition from Middle Childhood to Adolescence.’’ Develop- mental Psychology 33, no. 6 (1997):917–924. Mary Elizabeth Curtner-S ...

the standard of practice all over the world, as well as an early marker for later developmental outcomes. In 1959 Apgar left Col ...

A sample of the APGAR scoring system devised by Virginia Apgar (1909–1974). (Standley Publication) ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION Artif ...

of the family as central to existence. In addition, the value given toward preserving honor and harmony may be common across Asi ...

In addition, the prevention of immigration created a Chinese-American population comprised mostly of men, leading to lower numbe ...

understand the effects of this imprisonment on their own families. The end of the Vietnam War in 1975 and the im- migration that ...

Children who suffer from asthma use inhalers, or bronchodilators, which allow them to breathe easier. (B. S. I. P./Custom Medica ...

often associated with allergies) also are more likely to have asthma. Treatment of asthma requires a whole life ap- proach. Prev ...

to maintain close proximity to their caregivers, and they are distressed by separations from them. Over time, partnerships emerg ...

haviors, and ‘‘models’’ because they are cognitive rep- resentations of relationship experiences. In other words, children store ...

Child Care By the twenty-first century, most infants in the United States experienced some form of child care in their first yea ...

Attachment figures—such as this teacher—provide comfort to children in times of stress by offering a safe haven from situations ...