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The Child : Development from Birth Through Adolescence by Judith Rich Harris, Robert M. Liebert is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Child : Development from Birth Through Adolescence about?

Some basic concepts. The study of child development -- Different ways of studying child development -- Heredity and environment. Nature versus nurture -- Basic environmental influences -- The workings of heredity -- Interactions between heredity and environment -- Important theories of development. Early views of development -- The psychoanalytic viewpoint -- The cognitive-developmental approach -- Behaviorism -- Social learning theory -- Will the right theory please step forward? -- From conception to birth. Development in the prenatal period -- Factors that influence prenatal development -- Birth -- Alternative methods of childbirth -- The baby. The characteristics of the newborn baby -- The perceptual world of the infant -- Motor development -- From infancy to toddlerhood: physical growth -- The first social relationships. Parent-infant interactions -- Attachment -- The beginnings of intelligence and language. Cognitive development in infancy -- Variations in intelligence: infancy and later -- Acquiring language -- The preschool child: physical, motor, and perceptual development. You’ve come a long way, baby! -- Physical growth -- Motor development -- Development of the brain --

Author

Judith Rich Harris, Robert M. Liebert

Publisher

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780131304369

Subjects

Sociology, Medical, Psychology

Updated

2026-03-24