How Children Develop

Robert Siegler is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.  Jenny R. Saffran is the College of Letters & Science Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Nancy Eisenberg is Regents’ Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University.  Judy DeLoache is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.  Elizabeth Gershoff is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

1. An Introduction to Child Development.- 2. Prenatal Development and the Newborn Period.- 3. Biology and Behavior.- 4. Theories of Cognitive Development.- 5. Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy.- 6. Development of Language and Symbol Use.- 7. Conceptual Development.- 8.Intelligence and Academic Achievement.- 9. Theories of Social Development.- 10. Emotional Development.- 11. Attachment to Others and Development of Self.- 12. The Family.- 13. Peer Relationships.- 14. Moral Development.- 15. Gender Development.- 16. Conclusions.