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Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Kail, Robert V.

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Table of contents
  • Contentsv
  • Contributorsix
  • Prefacexi
  • Chapter 1. Learning to Keep Balance1
  • I. Introduction1
  • II. Learning to Keep Balance: Sway Model of Balance Control3
  • III. Flexibility and Specificity of Motor Learning9
  • IV. How Development May Constrain Motor Learning27
  • References36
  • Chapter 2. Sexual Selection and Human Life History41
  • I. Introduction41
  • II. Natural Selection and Life History42
  • III. Sexual Selection51
  • IV. Life History and Sexual Selection56
  • V. Human Developmental Sex Differences63
  • VI. Conclusion87
  • References89
  • Chapter 3. Developments in Early Recall Memory: Normative Trends and Individual Differences103
  • I. Initiating the Study of Early Recall Memory105
  • II. Characterizing Recall Memory in the First Two Years of Life110
  • III. Individual Differences in Long-Term Recall: Children's Gender, Children's Language Proficiency,115
  • IV. Individual Differences in Long-Term Recall: Children's Temperament Characteristics121
  • V. Children's Temperament and Mothers' Language as Interacting Sources of Individual Differences in130
  • VI. Conclusions and Implications138
  • References146
  • Chapter 4. Intersensory Redundancy Guides Early Perceptual and Cognitive Development153
  • I. Introduction: Historical Overview and Perspectives on Perceptual Development153
  • II. Amodal Relations and the Multimodal Nature of Early Experience156
  • III. Unimodal–Multimodal Dichotomy in Developmental Research158
  • IV. Neural and Behavioral Evidence for Intersensory Interactions159
  • V. Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis: Toward an Integrated Theory of Perceptual Development163
  • VI. Summary and Directions for Future Study of Perceptual Development178
  • References181
  • Chapter 5. Children's Emotion-Related Regulation189
  • I. Definition of Emotion-Related Regulation190
  • II. A Brief Review of Views of Emotion Regulation in Theories of Emotion191
  • III. Conceptual Issues194
  • IV. Age-Related Trends in Emotion-Relevant Regulation198
  • V. Measurement of Emotion Regulation204
  • VI. Relation of Emotion-Relevant Regulation to Quality of Social Functioning210
  • VII. Relations of Dispositional Resiliency to Effortful and Reactive Control and Socioemotional Func215
  • VIII. Summary and Future Directions219
  • References220
  • Chapter 6. Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment in Atypical Groups231
  • I. Introduction231
  • II. Organization of Attachment233
  • III. Maternal Sensitivity236
  • IV. Role of Child Characteristics242
  • V. Atypical Groups of Mothers255
  • VI. Conclusions260
  • References263
  • Chapter 7. Influences of Friends and Friendships: Myths, Truths, and Research Recommendations275
  • I. Introduction275
  • II. Influences of Friends' Characteristics277
  • III. Influences of Friendship Quality294
  • IV. Influences of Friends' Characteristics in Friendships Differing in Quality299
  • V. Conclusions and Implications302
  • References307
  • Author Index311
  • Subject Index329
  • Contents of Previous Volumes339
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780120097302
  • ISBN-13 9780080526263
  • Author Kail, Robert V.
  • Category Psychology
  • Subject Research & Methodology

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Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 30 discusses early recall memory, balance and motor learning, sexual selection, emotion-related regulation, maternal sensitivity and attachment, and influences of friends.