coverage and evaluation of Freud’s Psychosexual Theory
Updated Operant Conditioning, Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory, and Information Processing Theory
Updated and expanded coverage of Ethology and Evolutionary Developmental Theory
New Applying Developmental Science: The Real-World Significance of Developmental Research, highlighting the ethical issues that arise in developmental science and its implications for international policy
New coverage of Physiological Measures
New feature on Brain and Biological Influences on Development: Methods of Studying the Brain
Added new research examples of Experimental Research
Chapter 2
Updated coverage and streamlined Cell Reproduction
Updated coverage of Ethical and Policy Applications of Life Span Development: Prenatal Sex Selection and retitled as Applying Developmental Science: Prenatal Sex Selection
Updated coverage of Genes Shared by Twins
Updated and extended coverage of Dominant–Recessive Inheritance to include additional information about sickle cell trait
Updated and expanded coverage of Genomic Imprinting
Updated coverage of Dominant–Recessive Disorders
Updated and reorganized coverage of X-Linked Disorders
Updated and expanded coverage of Chromosomal Abnormalities
Updated coverage of Mutation
New section: Genetic Counseling with new subsections on Reproductive Technology and Adoption
Updated and expanded coverage of Prenatal Testing to include fetal MRI
Updated and expanded coverage of Prenatal Treatment of Genetic Disorders to include fetoscopy
Updated coverage of Behavioral Genetics, including Genetic Influences on Personal Characteristics, Gene–Environment Interactions, Canalization, and Gene–Environment Correlations
Updated coverage of Epigenetic Influences on Development replaces Epigenetic Framework
Updated Applying Developmental Science: Altering the Epigenome retitled as Brain and Biological Influences on Development: Altering the Epigenome
Chapter 3
Updated coverage of Prenatal Development
New coverage of Contextual and Cultural Influences on Prenatal Care
New feature on Brain and Biological Influences on Development: Pregnancy and the Maternal Brain
Updated coverage and reorganized Principles of Teratology section to combine Developmental Delays and Sleeper Effects as Complicated Effects
Updated and reorganized Types of Teratogens
Updated and retitled Ethical and Policy Applications of Lifespan Development: Maternal Drug Use While Pregnant as Applying Developmental Science: Maternal Drug Use While Pregnant
Divided and expanded Childbirth and the Newborn into two sections
New Childbirth section includes new coverage of Medication During Delivery, Cesarean Delivery, Natural Childbirth, and Home Birth
Chapter 4
Updated coverage and streamlined presentation of Growth Norms, Breastfeeding, Solid Food, and Malnutrition
Updated coverage and retitled Ethical and Policy Applications of Life Span Development
Updated and streamlined coverage of Failure to Thrive
Updated coverage of Processes of Neural Development
New coverage of The Cerebral Cortex
Updated coverage of Experience and Brain Development
New coverage of Sleep and Brain Development
Updated coverage of Imitation to address recent criticism
Updated Lives in Context: Pain and Neonatal Circumcision
Updated coverage of Intermodal Perception and expanded to include discussion of affordances
Updated coverage and added new examples to Motor Development During Infancy and Toddlerhood
New feature on Brain and Biological Influences on Development: Hand Preference and Language Development in Infancy
Updated and expanded Motor Development as a Dynamic System
Chapter 5
Updated and expanded coverage of Deferred Imitation Tasks
Updated and expanded coverage of Core Knowledge Theory: An Alternative Perspective
Updated coverage of Organization of the Information Processing System, Attention, and Memory
Updated coverage of Categorization and retitled as Infants’ Thinking
New feature: Brain and Biological Influences on Development: Poverty and Development
Updated Information Processing Approach to Intelligence with new examples and retitled as Intelligence as Information Processing
Updated and expanded coverage of Prelinguistic Communication and First Words and Learning Words: Semantic Growth
Updated coverage of Learning Theory and Language Development and Nativist Theory and Language Development
Updated, reorganized, and expanded coverage of Interactionist Perspective on Language Development, including Biological Contributions to Language Development and Contextual Contributions to Language Development
New feature: Cultural Influences on Development: Culture and Language Development in Infancy
Chapter 6
Updated Cultural Influences on Development: Father–Infant Interactions, retitled from Lives in Context: Attachment to Fathers, and moved from later in the chapter
Reorganized Infants’ Emotional Experiences, creating sections with new coverage of Basic Emotions and Self-Conscious
