Chapter 4
Safety of Medications During Pregnancy 114
Easing the Transition to Parenthood 134
Chapter 5
Brain and Body 142
How Toys Stimulate Babies’ Senses 156
Head-to-Body Proportions 157
Checklist of Motor Skill Development in Infancy 163
Chapter 6
Organizing by Cognitive Schema 178
Testing Object Permanence 181
Infantile Amnesia 190
Data Crunching to Learn Language 197
Using Linguistic Constraints 205
Background TV 209
Chapter 7
Why We Use Emoticons and Emoji 216
Temperament 221
Experiencing a Sense of Secure Attachment 226
Educating Parents 233
Chapter 8
Checklist of Motor Skill Development in Early Childhood 253
Developing Body Awareness 255
Living With a Severe Allergy 267
Creating a Personal Health History 270
Chapter 9
Conservation 287
Executive Function 293
Mind Reading and Mindblindness 295
False Beliefs 296
The Impact of Word Order 302
Private Speech 303
Using Dialogic Reading 306
Chapter 10
Shame and Guilt 322
How Do Children Resist Temptation? 326
Kohlberg’s Cognitive Developmental Theory of Gender Development 330
Parents’ Reaction to Misbehavior 342
Parten’s Stages of Social Play 347
Intrusive Thoughts 352
Chapter 11
Your Growth in Childhood 361
School Lunches 372
Finding Local Sources of Support 378
Stress and Coping 380
After-School Physical Activity 383
Chapter 12
Working Memory 398
Encoding Processes 399
Creating False Memories 401
Metalinguistic Awareness 404
Teaching for Multiple Intelligences 417
Teacher-Heroes in Movies and Real Life 423
Academic Mindsets 426
Chapter 13
Self-Concept and Self-Esteem 433
Examining Nonshared Environments 448
Diagram Your Family 456
Rejection Sensitivity 461
Resilience 466
Chapter 14
Rites of Passage 478
The Heterosexual Questionnaire 483
Keeping a Sleep Diary 491
Cigarettes in the Movies and TV 497
Finding Resources to Cope with Stress 505
Chapter 15
Formal Operations 510
Studying and Distractions 514
Metacognition 516
Creativity Tests 518
Textisms 526
Academic Motivation 530
Implicit Associations Test 536
Chapter 16
Sources of Parent-Adolescent Conflict 562
Family Mealtime 564
Friends—Similar or Different? 567
Recognizing a Crowd When You See One 568
School Violence From a Student’s Perspective 571
Romantic Attachment Styles 573
Relationships With Nonparental Adults 575
List of Journey of Research
Chapter 2
Children’s Eyewitness Testimony 54
The Case of Henrietta Lacks 65
Chapter 3
The History of Research on Genetics 71
Chapter 4
Understanding the Effects of Alcohol on a Pregnancy 113
From Child Hatchery to Modern NICU 128
Chapter 5
Do Infants Feel Pain? 154
Chapter 6
Is Object Permanence Learned or Innate? 185
Is There a Critical Period for Language Learning? 199
Chapter 7
The History of the Study of Attachment 226
Chapter 8
Searching for the Cause of Autism Spectrum Disorder 260
Child Protective Legislation 276
Chapter 9
Educational TV and Sesame Street 316