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Child Growth and Development

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-07-812784-7
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Erscheinungstermin: 01.12.2009
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Annual Editions is a series of over 65 volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is offered as a practical guide for instructors. Visit www.mhcls.com for more details.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780078127847
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-07-812784-7
  • Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.12.2009
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 17 Rev ed
  • Serie: Annual Editions
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 337 g
  • Seiten: 176
  • Format (B x H x T): 210 x 274 x 10 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Junn, Ellen N

Junn, Ellen

Boyatzis, Chris J.

Boyatzis, Chris

Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 10/11PrefaceCorrelation GuideTopic GuideInternet ReferencesUNIT 1: Conception to BirthUnit Overview1. New Calculator Factors Chances for Very Premature Infants, Denise Grady, The New York Times, April 17, 2008Researchers have developed a statistical tool to determine the chance of a premature baby's survival and the likelihood of birth defects. Gender and birth weight are key factors in helping babies born as early as 22 to 25 weeks survive. The calculations influence medical decisions that are to be taken for the care of these premature infants.2. Success at Last, Deborah Kotz, U.S. News & World Report, May 7, 2007Couples fighting infertility have some control over conception through the alteration of diet, exercise, and stress levels. Many factors in these areas can affect ovulation and hormone levels in women, thus influencing fertility, but men's habits matter as well.UNIT 2: Cognition, Language, and LearningUnit OverviewPart A. Early Cognition and Physical Development3. Infants' Differential Processing of Female and Male Faces, Jennifer L. Ramsey-Rennels and Judith H. Langlois, Current Directions in Psychological Science, April 2006This article about infants' processing of faces discusses infants' difficulty in forming a male prototype and also the fact that infants preferred female faces to male faces. This is explained in terms of environmental experiences with female faces and evolutionary dispositions.4. The Other-Race Effect Develops during Infancy, David J. Kelly et al., Psychological Science, December 2007Additional support for environmental influences on face processing is presented in this article. Infants learn to discriminate faces in their own race from other races by 9 months of age, a form of "perceptual narrowing," which may facilitate the development of the other-race effect seen in adults.5. New Advances in Understanding Sensitive Periods in Brain Development, Michael S. C. Thomas and Mark H. Johnson, Current Directions in Psychological Science, January 2008The human brain is marked by plasticity early in life but also is susceptible to the power of experiences at different ages. Sensitive periods occur when the brain seems optimally prepared to learn certain skills and knowledge, such as imprinting and attachment and even second languages. 6. Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development, Adele Diamond and Dima Amso, Current Directions in Psychological Science, February 2008Neuroscience has shown that biology is not destiny—that experience affects the growing brain. Authors Diamond and Amso describe recent neuroscience research in several areas, including infant imitation and mirror neurons, neurotransmitters, maternal touch and infant stress, and the intergenerational transmission of biological and behavioral characteristics. 7. It's Fun, but Does It Make You Smarter?, Erika Packard, APA Monitor on Psychology, November 2007Children's Internet usage has increased greatly in recent years, but how does it affect their learning? Research suggests that because of the heavy text-based material online, Internet usage may improve children's reading performance. Children need to learn skills that are necessary for self-directed online learn