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| Exploring Child Development | |
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| Defining The Field | |
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| What Develops? | |
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| What Drives Development? Nature, and Nurture, and Reciprocal Relationships | |
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| Theories Of Child Development | |
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| What Is a Theory, and Why Are Theories Useful? | |
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| Psychoanalytic Theories | |
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| Behavioral and Social Learning Theories | |
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| Cognitive Theories | |
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| Biological Theories | |
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| Contextual and Systems Theories | |
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| Using the Scientific Method: Research in Child Development | |
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| Descriptive Research Methods | |
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| Correlational Research Methods: Measuring Associations | |
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| Experimental Research Methods: Determining Cause and Effect | |
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| Methods for Assessing Development | |
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| Ethics in Research with Children | |
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| Applications of Child Development Research and Careers Related to Children | |
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| Practical Applications of Child Development Research | |
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| Personal Perspective "Meet First-Time Expectant Parents" | |
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| Social Policy Perspective: "Every Day in America" | |
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| Careers Related to Children | |
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| Professional Perspective: "Career Focus: Meet a School Social Worker" | |
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| Heredity and the Environmentgenes and Human Reproduction | |
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| Genes and the Magical Four-Letter CodeSocial Policy Perspective: "Protecting the Genetic Privacy of Citizens" | |
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| Human Reproduction and Cell Division | |
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| Personal Perspective: "Meet a Couple Who Used Artificial Insemination " | |
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| How Traits and Genetic Abnormalities are Inherited | |
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| Dominant Recessive TraitsChromosome Abnormalities | |
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| Prenatal Screening and Genetic Testing | |
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| Professional Perspective: "Career Focus: Meet a Genetic Counselor" | |
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| How Genes and Environments Interact | |
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| Range of Reaction | |
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| CanalizationNiche-Picking: I Gotta Be Me ...Probabilistic Epigenesis: Activating Your Genes | |
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| Behavior Genetics: Measuring the Heritability of Traits | |
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| Behavior Genetics, Heritability, and Shared and Nonshared Environments | |
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| How Is Heritability Estimated? | |
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| Heritability of Complex Characteristics | |
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| Prenatal Development and Birthprenatal Development | |
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| ConceptionStages of Prenatal Development | |
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| Teratogens: Health Risks for the Baby | |
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| Alcohol | |
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| Personal Perspective: "Meet a Family Who Adopted a Child with FAS" | |
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| Cocaine | |
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| Cigarette SmokingSocial Policy Perspective: "The Case of Malissa Ann Crawley" | |
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| Maternal Health | |
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| Maternal AgeCritical Periods | |
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| The Role of Fathers | |
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| The Process of Birth | |
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| Stages of Birth | |
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| Options in Giving Birth: Choices and Alternatives | |
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| Professional Perspective: "Career Focus: Meet a Certified Nurse Midwife." | |
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| Drugs during Labor and Delivery | |
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| The Partner's Role: Helping During Birth | |
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| Birthing Complications: Something Isn't Right | |
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| Here's the Newborn! | |
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| Infants At Risk: Prematurity and Infant Mortality | |
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| What Is Prematurity? | |
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| Infant Mortality | |
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| Prenatal Care: Having a Healthy Baby | |
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| Becoming A Family: Psychological Adjustments to Having a Newborn | |
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| The Transition to ParenthoodBecoming the Big Brother or Sister | |
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| Physical Development: Body, Brain, and Perception | |
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| Physical Growth and the Development of Motor Coordination | |
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| Physical Growth | |
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| Reflexes: The Infant's First Coordinated Movements | |
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| Voluntary Movements: The Motor Milestones | |
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| Professional Perspective: "Career Focus: Meet a Physical Therapist | |
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| "Nutrition and Eating-Related Problems | |
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| Development of the Brain and Nervous System | |
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| Structure of the Brain and Nervous System | |
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| Forming the Brain and Nervous System | |
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| The Role of Experience in Brain Development | |
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| Social Policy Perspective: "Can Mozart Stimulate Neural Connections in Infants?" | |
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| Neural Plasticity and Sensitive Periods | |
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| Larger Developmental Patterns in the Bra | |