Child Development

in the number of maltreated children. In 1974 the number of reports for suspected maltreatment was merely 60,000; in 1980, the n ...

cate and developing brain. These infants suffer signif- icant neurological damage and often die as a result of the brain injury ...

also involve recommending a developmental evalua- tion for a child who is developmentally delayed or recommending medical and be ...

Mackner, Laura M., Raymond H. Starr, and Maureen M. Black. ‘‘The Cumulative Effect of Neglect and Failure to Thrive on Cognitive ...

Factors in Determining the Child’s Best Interest The majority (an estimated 90%) of custody cases are settled according to paren ...

Joint custody has been linked to higher satisfaction with the custody arrangement in parents and better adjustment in children i ...

Dilemmas of Custody. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Current Population Reports: Marit ...

CHRONIC ILLNESS Chronic illnesses among children traditionally have been defined based on a specific diagnosis. More re- cently, ...

remains controversial. Other researchers have found no such link, or have noted small and largely mean- ingless effects. When in ...

reciprocally and mutually nominate one another as close friends. Cliques can play an important role in psychological adjustment. ...

Lev Vygotsky, who was a contemporary of Piaget. A final important class of theories, information- processing theories, has focus ...

His experiments laid the foundation for much of the early work that examined cognitive development. During the 1970s and 1980s, ...

that children have theories for the way their minds work, as well as the way other people’s minds work. Heinz Wimmer and Josef P ...

FIGURE 2 Study in which infants were tested for object permanence using the habituation-dishabituation response. (a). First, inf ...

veloping brain make complex contributions to a child’s development. See also: ABSTRACT REASONING; PIAGET, JEAN; THEORIES OF DEVE ...

ories together and then oversimplify the new material or miscategorize it altogether. They can miss distin- guishing features am ...

the level of reflectivity-impulsivity and its expression in student behavior. It is important to note that correlational studies ...

Bibliography Gabbard, G. O. Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, 3rd edition. Wash- ington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, ...

An elementary school student uses a computer in the school library while another students looks on. The ease and facility with w ...

portunity to control their exploration of the comput- er and software. Early use should be limited in duration, and frustration ...