Appendix A

• Discusses the ethics of research in development (pp. 27–28).

• Discusses how the social environment affects pregnant women (pp. 44–45).

• Explores how events during prenatal development may affect the genetic code (p. 51).

• Covers the purpose and role of genetic counseling and prenatal testing (p. 55–56).

• Discusses infertility and reproductive technologies, including assisted reproductive technology (ART) (pp. 56–57).

• Covers newborn testing that helps to ensure infant survival (pp. 63–65).

• Discusses challenges to breast-feeding, including in cultures around the world (pp. 78–79).

• Discusses childhood malnutrition (p. 80).

• Explores methods of quieting a baby, including swaddling and kangaroo care (pp. 81–82).

• Covers SIDS and presents tips to caregivers (pp. 86–87).

• Discusses early-life deprivation and its long-term effects (p. 116).

• Covers the effects of poverty, food insecurity, and less-than-optimal child care on children—plus describes U.S. programs that target these problems (pp. 118–122).

• Covers threats to growth and motor skills (p. 139).

• Discusses childhood health problems, especially obesity (pp. 139–142).

• Discusses taking action against child abuse (p. 209).

• Covers mental health threats (including self-injury) that occur during adolescence (pp. 269–271).

• Explores forces that erode the day-to-day motherhood experience and includes a transition-to-parenthood checklist for mothers and fathers (p. 342, p. 344).

• Explores stereotypes about physical well-being and mental decline in the elderly (p. 392).

• Covers chronic health conditions of U.S. adults in middle and later life (pp. 418–420).

• Discusses conditions that promote greater life expectancy in developing versus developed-world countries (pp. 420–422).

• Covers disease and life-expectancy as related to gender and aging (pp. 422–423).

• Explores an individual’s search for a “good death” (pp. 455–457).

• Covers hospital care and interventions such as palliative care (pp. 461–463).

• Discusses hospice care (pp. 463–466).

• Covers advance directives (pp. 467–468).

• Discusses active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (pp. 468–470).

• Describes major theories of development, including behaviorism, psychoanalytic theory, and attachment theory (pp. 12–16).

• Describes new theories and contributions from evolutionary psychology (p. 16), behavioral genetics (including epigenetics) (pp. 16–20), and highlights the developmental systems perspective (pp. 22–24).

• Covers genetics of fertilization (pp. 38).

• Describes stages of prenatal development and trimesters of pregnancy (pp. 39–45).

• Covers threats to a developing baby, including those from teratogens (pp. 46–49).

• Describes the impact of prenatal stress (pp. 50–51).

• Covers chromosomal and genetic disorders (pp. 51–55).

• Discusses genetic counseling and prenatal tests (pp. 55–56).

• Covers the stages of birth (pp. 60–61).

• Describes interventions in labor and birth (pp. 61–63).

• Describes test for newborns (Apgar scale) (p. 63), plus low and very low birth weight and neonatal intensive care (pp. 64–65).

• Covers global infant mortality (pp. 65–66).

• Covers brain growth and brain plasticity in infants (pp. 74–76).

• Describes developmental changes in reflexes and eating (pp. 77–79).

• Discusses the benefits of breast-feeding and the importance of nutrition, especially during infancy (pp. 78–80).

• Describes patterns of infant crying (pp. 80–81) and sleeping (pp. 82–84).

• Covers seeing and hearing in newborns (pp. 88–90).

• Covers physical development (p. 90) and motor milestones (pp. 91–92) during infancy.

• Covers Piaget’s sensorimotor stage (pp. 93–97).

• Discusses social cognition in infants (pp. 98–99).

• Describes language development in infants (pp. 99–102).

• Discusses psychosocial development in toddlers (pp. 124–127).

• Describes brain development during childhood (pp. 136–137).

• Describes milestones in physical development during childhood as well as threats to growth and motor skills (pp. 137–139).

• Discusses childhood obesity and strategies for limiting overweight in children (pp. 137–140).

• Covers Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories of child cognitive development (pp. 142–148, pp. 149–150).

• Discusses the information-processing perspective and memory in childhood (pp. 151–153).

• Covers Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in childhood, and explores interventions (pp. 154–156).

• Describes language development in childhood (pp. 157–158).

• Discusses social cognitive skills in children (theory of mind and autobiographical memory) (pp. 159–162).

• Covers Autism Spectrum Disorders (pp. 162–164).

• Discusses child physical abuse (p. 207).

• Discusses overweight and family stress as well as early puberty in girls (pp. 238–239).

• Covers puberty and sexual maturation in girls and boys (pp. 240–243).

• Discusses issues related to puberty and body image as well as eating disorders (pp. 244–248).

• Discusses when sexual desire begins (pp. 249–250).

• Describes brain development during adolescence (pp. 261–263).

• Covers risk-taking during adolescent development (pp. 268–271).

• Discusses teenagers who may be at-risk and why (pp. 272–273), as well as teenagers who flourish, and why (p. 274).

• Covers peaks in physical development for adults (p. 294).

• Discusses romantic choices, including same-sex romance (pp. 312–314).

• Describes cognitive development in adulthood (pp. 368–373).

• Discusses changes in sexual behavior during adulthood (pp. 381–383).

• Explores cognitive development and memory changes during later adulthood (pp. 394–395).

• Describes aging and sensory-motor changes in vision, as well as interventions for vision loss (pp. 424–426).

• Describes hearing loss and interventions for this condition (pp. 427–428).

• Describes motor performance and problems, as well as interventions to manage motor problems (pp. 428–430).

• Discusses neurocognitive disorders and interventions, especially as related to Alzheimer’s disease (pp. 432–437).

• Discusses global health care for the frail elderly, including institutions and alternatives to institutions in the United States (pp. 438–441).

• Describes Kübler-Ross’s stages of dying (pp. 452–453) and how those stages may relate to the needs of dying people (pp. 453–454).

• Discusses the qualities of a “good death” (pp. 455–457).

• Explores how contexts of development help to shape lives and well-being, including contexts of cohort (pp. 5–8), socioeconomic status (p. 9), and culture and ethnicity (p. 10).

• Discusses nature and nurture as forces that evoke certain responses from others and/or actively allow people to place themselves in specific environments (pp. 18–19).

• Covers how early life events epigenetically alter our DNA (pp. 19–20).

• Covers the developmental systems perspective and Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model illustrating how real-world behavior has many causes (pp. 23–24).

• Explores the impact of partners, family, and friends on a woman’s well-being during pregnancy (p. 44).

• Discusses the well-being of expectant dads (p. 45).

• Covers the impact of stress on fetal health (p. 50).

• Covers swaddling and kangaroo care, among other methods, for quieting an infant. (pp. 81–82).

• Discusses methods to help a baby self-soothe (pp. 84–85).

• Covers co-sleeping as a cultural and personal choice (pp. 85–86).

• Covers attachment theory; particularly, children’s attachment to parents and/or caregivers (pp. 109–110).

• Discusses various attachment styles in children (pp. 111–112).

• Discusses the influence of various caregiving styles on infants (pp. 112–113).

• Explores the experience of early-life deprivation (p. 116).

• Discusses the impact of SES, especially poverty, on development (pp. 118–120).

• Discusses the role of child care in development (pp. 121–122).

• Explores exuberance and shyness, including providing the right temperament-socialization fit for a baby (pp. 127–129).

• Discusses learning and social support for children with special needs, including children with ADHD (pp. 154–156) and autism spectrum disorders (pp. 162–163).

• Discusses aggressive behavior in children (pp. 179–182).

• Explores the importance of play and how it helps children develop social bonds (pp. 182–185).

• Discusses the importance and value of children’s friendships (pp. 188–189).

• A-6

  Explores the situation of children rejected by their peers (p. 191), and how rejected children may be helped (pp. 193–194).

• Covers bullies and bully-victims (p. 192), as well as cyberbullying (p. 193).

• Covers the effects of parenting styles on children (pp. 201–203).

• Discusses resilient children (pp. 203–204).

• Covers the effect of corporal punishment on children (p. 206–207).

• Discusses child abuse (pp. 207–209).

• Explores the effect of divorce on children, using research that includes subjects from various cultures (pp. 209–211).

• Discusses cultural differences in approaching puberty (pp. 232–233).

• Explores anxiety and depression in early-maturing girls (p. 242), as well as ways to minimize puberty distress for boys and girls (p. 243).

• Discusses sexuality in adolescent boys and girls (pp. 249–251).

• Discusses moral judgments and the development of internalized moral values in adolescents (pp. 263–265).

• Covers adolescent emotional storms and adolescent egocentrism (pp. 265–266).

• Explores adolescents’ impulsivity and risk-taking decisions (pp. 266–269).

• Discusses adolescents and nonsuicidal self-injury (pp. 270–271).

• Explores at-risk adolescents’ emotion regulation and family relationships (pp. 273–274).

• Explores teenage relationships with parents (pp. 280–281), including cultural variations (p. 282).

• Covers adolescent depression and peer groups that teens choose to belong to (pp. 284–285), including teenage gangs (p. 286).

• Discusses child soldiers and child brides (pp. 286–287).

• Explores the social clock as experienced by emerging adults, including variations by culture (pp. 298–299).

• Discusses adolescent and emerging-adult experiences in searching for an identity (pp. 300–303).

• Covers emerging adults’ search for love relationships (pp. 311–312), including same-sex romance (pp. 312–314) and love viewed through the perspective of attachment theory (pp. 318–320).

• Discusses emerging adults’ perceptions of Facebook romance (pp. 317–318).

• Explores stress for new mothers (p. 343) and fathers (p. 344).

• Covers the Big Five personality traits during the adult years (pp. 358–362).

• Explores issues related to body image, sex, and menopause for men and women in midlife (pp. 381–383).

• Discusses memory capabilities in older adults (pp. 392–398).

• Covers the paradox of well-being and the positivity effect in older adults (pp. 399–401).

• Discusses grief and loss for widows (p. 410), the importance of relationships for widows (p. 410), and those widows who may be most at risk (p. 411).

• Covers the influence of socioeconomic status on aging and disease (pp. 420–422).

• Explores the relationship of gender to aging and disease (pp. 422–423).

• Covers stress and coping as they relate to age-related loss of vision (pp. 424–426), hearing (pp. 426–428), and motor performance (pp. 428–430).

• Covers features of neurocognitive disorders. (pp. 433–436).

• Explores caregiving for those with neurocognitive disorders (pp. 436–437).

• Discusses alternatives to institutions and nursing homes in the United States and other developed nations (p. 439).

• Covers nursing home care (pp. 440–441).

• Explores cultural variations in how families approach a loved one’s death (p. 451).

• Discusses the experience of the dying person, including Kübler-Ross’s Stages of Dying, as well as includes a critique (pp. 452–454).

• Explores the qualities involved in a “good death” (pp. 455–457).

• Discusses evolving ideas about grieving (p. 457).

• Covers the family experience of losing a child (pp. 458–459).

• Explores hospital care for the dying (pp. 460–462), palliative-care units (pp. 462–463), and hospice care (pp. 463–466).

• Discusses teratogens to avoid during pregnancy (pp. 47–50).

• Covers the advantages and problems related to various prenatal tests (pp. 55–56).

• Discusses infertility interventions, especially ART (pp. 58–59).

• Discusses the pluses and minuses of various interventions in labor and birth (pp. 61–63).

• Covers care for and outcomes with low birth weight babies (pp. 64–65).

• Discusses sleep requirements of babies (pp. 82–84).

• Covers Instrumental ADL problems and Basic ADL limitations, and discusses ways in which older adults may need help.

• Discusses aid for the frail elderly as well as for caregivers of the elderly, including for those with Alzheimer’s disease (pp. 436–437).

• Covers options and services for the frail elderly, including settings where people age—from continuing care to assisted living facilities, nursing homes (pp. 438–441).

• Discusses the health-care system and relationships between medical workers families of the terminally ill (pp. 460–461).

• Explores palliative care and hospice care, both in and outside of hospital settings (pp. 461–466).

• Discusses active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (pp. 468–469).