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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining Development | |
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| Zooming In and Zooming Out | |
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| A View From Science: Depression and the Brain | |
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| A Case to Study: Plasticity and My Nephew David | |
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| Applying the Scientific Method | |
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| Cautions from Science | |
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| Theories of Development | |
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| Grand Theories | |
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| A View From Science: What's a Mother For? | |
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| Emergent Theories | |
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| A Personal Perspective: My Beautiful, Hairless Babies | |
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| Useful Application of Theories | |
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| Heredity and Environment | |
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| The Genetic Code | |
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| Sex, Multiple Births, and Fertility | |
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| A View from Science: IVF and Multiple Births | |
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| From One Cell to Many | |
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| Genotype and Phenotype | |
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| Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities | |
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| Genetic Counseling and Testing | |
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| A View from Science: Genetic Testing for Psychological Disorders | |
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| Prenatal Development and Birth | |
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| From Zygote to Newborn | |
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| Risk Reduction | |
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| A View from Science: Jail Those Drunken Women? | |
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| A Personal Perspective: "What Do People Live to Do?" | |
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| Birth | |
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| A Personal Perspective: "You'd Throw Him in a Dumpster" | |
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| The First Two Years: Biosocial Development | |
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| Body Changes | |
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| Brain Development | |
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| A View from Science: Plasticity and Deprivation | |
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| Sensation and Movement | |
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| Public Health Measures | |
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| The First Two Years: Cognitive Development | |
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| Sensorimotor Intelligence | |
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| A View from Science: Object Permanence Revisited | |
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| Information Processing Language: What Develops in the First Two Years? | |
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| The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development | |
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| A Personal Perspective: Parents on Autopilot | |
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| Emotional Development | |
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| Theories About Infant Psychosocial Development | |
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| A Personal Perspective: "Let's Go to Grandma's" | |
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| The Development of Social Bonds | |
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| A View from Science: The Still-Face Technique | |
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| Conclusions in Theory and Practice | |
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| Early Childhood: Biosocial Development | |
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| Body Changes | |
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| Brain Development | |
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| Injuries and Abuse | |
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| A Personal Perspective: "My Baby Swallowed Poison" | |
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| A Personal Perspective: A Series of Suspicious Events | |
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| Early Childhood: Cognitive Development | |
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| Piaget and Vygotsky | |
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| Children's Theories | |
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| Language | |
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| A Personal Perspective: Mommy the Brat | |
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| Early-Childhood Education | |
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| Early Childhood: Psychosocial Development | |
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| Emotional Development | |
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| Parents | |
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| A View from Science: Planning Punishment | |
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| A Personal Perspective: Berger and Freud | |
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| The School Years: Biosocial Development | |
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| A Healthy Time | |
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| Brain Development | |
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| Children with Special Needs | |
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| A Personal Perspective:: Billy: Dynamo or Dynamite? | |
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| A View from Science: Overdosing and Underdosing | |
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| The School Years: Cognitive Development | |
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| Building on Theory | |
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| Language | |
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| A View from Science: Ses and Language Learning | |
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| Teaching and Learning | |
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| A View from Science: International Achievement Tests | |
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| The School Years: Psychosocial Development | |
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| The Peer Group | |
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| Families and Children | |
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| A Personal Perspective: I Always Dressed One in Blue Stuff | |
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| The Nature of the Child | |