Child Development

CONDUCT DISORDER Conduct disorder is a pattern of behavior in which in- dividuals consistently disregard and violate the rights ...

spite arbitrary transformations. In the classic Piagetian conservation of liquid task, children are presented with two identical ...

Bibliography Johnson, David, and Roger Johnson. Learning Together and Alone: Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learn ...

community volunteers to speak in court for the best interests of abused and neglected children. This first program was very succ ...

period. Although language development is a process that psychologists have long debated, there is agree- ment that a strong biol ...

maladaptive patterns of social behavior, difficulty in forming close relationships, and indiscriminately friendly behavior towar ...

involuntary reaction to pain, hunger, and tiredness. Therefore, crying is the means by which the infant communicates these physi ...

the results were inconclusive and in some areas con- tradictory. Despite the fact that these studies were conducted in different ...

D DATING Dating works to meet the needs of both identity achievement and the development of intimacy (both of which are chief ta ...

Steady versus Multiple Dating Dating relationships range from informal casual dating to involved, steady relationships. Steady d ...

Dating relationships range from informal casual dating to involved, steady relationships, with steady dating being more common a ...

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lar arrangement, possibly for enrichment purposes or educational development. The Census also found that the use of day care was ...

TABLE 1 SOURCE: Table adapted from Ellen Peisner-Feinberg, Margaret R. Burchinal, Richard M. Clifford, Noreen Yazejian, Mary L. ...

programs were immediately withdrawn after these crises were over. In the 1960s, educational day-care programs, such as Head Star ...

living things die. Death is irreversible (the dead do not come back), and the body becomes nonfunctional (all functions and acti ...

Adolescents grieve very deeply and with prolonged intensity. They often find solace with their peers, as is the case with these ...

Children do not typically hold onto their grief over a sustained period as do adolescents and adults. Upon learning the news of ...

DEFENSE MECHANISMS Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies used to cope with conflict, anxiety, and disturbing emo- tions, ...

A reform school workroom, circa 1854. In the past, delinquent youths were sent to reform schools for punishment, not rehabilitat ...