Child Development

U

Ultrasound, 329, 423
Umbilical cord, 423
Unemployment insurance, 432
Uninsured children, 176
United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child (UNCRC), 84
Unsupervised children, 232, 233–234

V

Vaccines, 201–204, 203, 350
Vaginal birth, 75–76
Vestibular system, 356
Vicarious emotional responses, 134
Victims
domestic violence, 125–126, 126
juvenile homicide, 426
Video games, 425

Violence, 19, 425–428, 427

See also Aggression; Domestic

violence

Visual system, 356

Vouchers. See School vouchers

Vygotsky, Lev, 428–429, 429

cultural-historical development

theory, 416

dialectical psychology, 121

sociocultural theory, 90

W

Wade, Roe v. (1973), 2

War, 431

Watson, John, 236

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

(WISC), 431–432

Weight gain during pregnancy, 319

Welfare programs, 432–434, 433

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC),

286, 435

Women and abortion, 1, 2

Workers’ compensation, 432

Working in adolescence, 435–437

Working families, 437–440, 439

Working memory, 90–91, 255–256

See also Memory

Working mothers, 110, 112–113, 296

See also Working families

World Wide Web. See Internet

Worldviews of development theory,

413–416

Y

Youngest children, 59

Z

Zone of proximal development, 416

INDEX 487