Encyclopedia of human development

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v. 1. Abecedarian Research Project

Abortion

Abstract Reasoning

Accommodation

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

Activity Theory

Acupuncture

Adaptation

Addiction

Adler, Alfred (1870-1937)

Adolescence

Adoption

Advance Directives

African Americans

After-School Programs

Age Discrimination

Ageism

Aggression

Aging

Aging Parents

Aging Well

Ainsworth, Mary Salter (1913-1999)

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholism

Alleles

Allergy

Altruism

Alzheimer's Disease

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society

American Sign Language (ASL)

Americans with Disabilities Act

Ames, Louise (1908-1996)

Amnesia

Amphetamines

Androgyny

Anemia

Anger

Anorexia Nervosa

Anti-Semitism

Antisocial Behavior

Anxiety Disorders

Apgar Score

Apgar, Virginia (1909-1974)

Apnea

Applied Behavior Analysis

Aptitude

Aptitude Tests

Arteriosclerosis

Asperger Syndrome

Assimilation

Assisted Living

Assisted Suicide

Asthma

Athletics

Attachment

Attention

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Attention Span

Attitude

Attribution Theory

Authoritarian Parenting Style

Authoritative Parenting Style

Autism

Average Life Expectancy

Babbling

Babinski Reflex

Baby Boomers

Baby Talk

Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

Bandura, Albert (1925- )

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Barker, Roger (1903-1990)

Battered Child Syndrome

Battered Woman Syndrome

Baumrind, Diana (1927- )

Bayley, Nancy (1899-1994)

Bayley Scales of Infant Development

Bereavement

Bereavement Overload

Berkeley/Oakland Longitudinal Studies

Bilingualism

Binet, Alfred (1857-1911)

Binge Drinking

Binge Eating

Biological Clock

Birth Defects

Birth Order

Birth Weight

Birthing Centers

Bisexuality

BMI (Body Mass Index)

Bowlby, John (1907-1990)

Brain Death

Brain Development

Brain Lateralization

Brain Plasticity

Brazelton, T. Berry (1918- )

Breast Cancer

Breathing Reflex

Breech Birth

Bronfenbrenner, Urie (1917- )

Brown, Roger (1925-1997)

Bruner, Jerome (1915- )

Buddhism

Bulimia Nervosa

Bullying

Cancer

Cardiovascular Disease

Career Development

Case Study

Categorization

Catholicism

Centers for Disease Control

Charter Schools

Child Abuse

Child Care/Day Care

Child Custody

Child Neglect

Child Rearing

Childlessness

Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)

Children's Rights

Chomsky, Noam (1928- )

Chromosomes

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Illness

Chronological Age

Circadian Rhythm

Circumcision

Classical Conditioning

Cluster Suicide

Cocaine

Cochlear Implant

Cognitive Development

Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive Equilibrium

Cognitive Style

Cohabitation

Cohort

Colic

Common Law Marriage

Comorbidity

Competence Versus Performance

Concrete Operational Period

Conduct Disorder

Conflict

Congestive Heart Failure

Congregate Housing

Conscience

Conservation

Continuity and Discontinuity in Development

Contraception

Convergent Thinking

Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Play

Corporal Punishment

Correlation

Cosleeping Arrangements

Courtroom Testimony

Crack Baby Syndrome

Crawling

Creativity

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Criterion-Referenced Tests

Critical Period

Cross-Cultural Development

Cross-Sectional Research

Crying

Crystallized Intelligence

Cystic Fibrosis

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

Dating

Deadbeat Dads

Deafness

Death

Death with Dignity

Deductive Reasoning

Deferred Imitation

Delinquency

Dementia

Dependent Variable

Depression

Development

Developmental Direction

Developmental Disabilities

Developmental Psychopathology

Developmental Quotient

Diabetes

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Dialectical Thought

Dieting

Disasters

Discipline

Disgust

Distance Learning

Divorce

Divorce Mediation

Domestic Violence

Donor Insemination

Down Syndrome

Drug Abuse

Drunk Driving

Dual-Earner Households

Dying

Dynamical Systems

Dyslexia

Early Childhood

Early Intervention Programs

Eating Disorders

Echolalia

Ecological Theory

Ego

Egocentrism

Ego Development

Elder Abuse

Elder Maltreatment

Elder Neglect

Elderhostel Programs

Electra and Oedipal Complexes

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Embryo

Emerging Adulthood

Emotional Development

Emotional Intelligence

Empathy

Empty Nest

Endocrine Disruptors

English as a Second Language (ESL)

Epilepsy

Equilibration

Erectile Dysfunction

Erikson, Erik (1902-1994)

Estrogen

Ethical Standards of Research

Ethnic Cleansing

Ethnic Identity

Ethology

Euthanasia

Executive Functioning

Exercise

Experiment

Experimental Group

Experimental Method

Extended Family

Extinction

Extramarital Sex. v. 2. Failure to Thrive

False Memories

Family Size

Fathers

Fetal Medicine

Fetus

Fine Motor Control

Fine Motor Development

Firearms

Five-Factor Model of Personality

Five-to-Seven Shift

Flavell, John (1928- )

Fluid Intelligence

Formal Operational Period

Foster Care

Fragile X Syndrome

Framingham Study

Fraternal Twins

Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)

Friendship

Funerals

Gamete

Gangs

Gardner, Howard (1943- )

Gateway Drug

Gay Marriages

Gender Differences

Gender Identity

Gender Role Development

Generalizability

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generation Gap

Genotype

Gerontological Society of America

Gerontology

Gesell, Arnold (1880-1961)

Giftedness

Gilligan, Carol (1936- )

Gilligan's Theory of Feminine Morality

Glass Ceiling

Grade Retention

Grandparents

Gray Panthers

Gross Motor Development

Habituation

Hall, G. Stanley (1844-1924)

Harlow, Harry (1905-1981)

Hate Crimes

Head Start

Health Insurance

Hemophilia

Heterosexuality

Hetherington, E. Mavis (1926

)

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

High-Risk Infants

Higher Education

Hispanic Americans

Holocaust

Home Birth

Homicide

Homosexuality

Hope

Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hormones

Hospice

Hot Flashes

Human Genome Project

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Humor

Huntington's Chorea

Hydrocephalus

Hypothesis

Id

Identical Twins

Identity

Ilg, Frances (1902-1981)

Imaginary Audience

Imaginary Friend

Imaginary Thinking

Imitation

Immigrants

Immune System

Immunizations

Imprinting

Inborn Errors of Metabolism

Incest

Inclusion/Mainstreaming

Incontinence

Independent Living

Individual Differences

Individualized Education Programs (IEP)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Inductive Reasoning

Infancy

Infant Mortality

Infanticide

Infectious Diseases

Infertility

Information Processing Theory

Inhibitory Control

Injuries

Intellectual Decline

Intelligence

Intergenerational Relationships

Internet

Interracial Marriages

Intimacy

Ionizing Radiation

IQ Tests

Islam

Joint Custody

Judaism

Juvenile Delinquency

Kibbutzim

Kindergarten Readiness

Kinsey Institute

Klinefelter's Syndrome

Kohlberg, Lawrence (1929-1987)

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth (1926-2004)

Labor

Language Acquisition Device

Language Development

Later Adulthood

Lead Poisoning

Learned Helplessness

Learning

Learning Disabilities

Lesbians

Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

Literacy

Locke, John (1632-1704)

Locus of Control

Loneliness

Longitudinal Research

Long-Term Memory

Low Birth Weight (LBW)

Madd (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)

Magical Thinking

Malnutrition

Marijuana

Marital Equity

Marriage

Maslow, Abraham (1908-1970)

Maternal Health

Maternal Phenylketonuria

Maternal Smoking

Maturation

Mean Length Utterance

Medicare

Memory Failure

Menarche

Menopause

Menstruation

Mental Age

Mental Retardation

Mentor

Meta-Analysis

Metacognition

Methadone

Methylmercury

Middle Adulthood

Midlife Crisis

Midwife

Miscarriage

Montessori Method

Mood Disorders

Moral Development

Moral Reasoning

Mortality

Motivation

Motor Skill Mastering

Mozart Effect

Multiple Births

Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Sclerosis

Myelin

Myopia

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

National Hospice Study

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

National Vital Statistics Reports

Native Americans

Natural Childbirth

Naturalistic Observation

Nature-Nurture

Neighborhoods

Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

Neonate

Neurotransmitters

New York Longitudinal Study (NYLS)

Nichd Child Care Study

Noble Savage

Noise

Norm-Referenced Tests

Normal Curve (Bell Curve)

Norms

Nursery (Preschool)

Nutrition

Obesity

Object Permanence

Observational Learning

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Older Adulthood

Older Americans Act

Oldest Old Age

Only Children

Operant Conditioning

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

Orphans

Osteoarthritis

Osteoporosis

Ovulation. v. 3. Pain

Palliative Care

Panic Disorder

Parasuicide

Parent-Child Interaction

Parent-Child Relationships

Parent Training

Parenting

Parents Anonymous

Peer Pressure

Peers

Permissive Parenting Style

Perry Preschool Program

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Pesticides

Pets

Phenotype

Phenylketonuria (PKU)

Phobias

Phonics

Phonological Awareness

Physical Development and Growth

Piaget, Jean (1896-1980)

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)

Positron Emission Topography (PET)

Postpartum Depression

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Poverty

Pregnancy

Prenatal Development

Preoperational Thought

Preschool Years

Preterm Infants

Preventive Medicine

Primary Circular Reactions

Private Speech

Problem Solving

Prosocial Behavior

Prostate Cancer

Psychoanalytic Theory

Psychopathology

Psychopharmacology

Psychosocial Development

Puberty

Public Policy

Punishment

Qualitative Methods

Quantitative Methods

Quasi-Experimental Design

Quinceañera

Rape

Reading

Reciprocal Determinism

Reflexes

Reggio Emilia Childhood Program

Reinforcement

Reliability

Religion

Resiliency

Retention

Retirement

Rett Syndrome

Rh Factor

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Right-to-Die Movement

Ritalin

Rogers, Carl (1902-1987)

Rogers, Fred (1928-2003)

Rubella (German Measles)

Sampling

SAT

Scaffolding

Schema

Schizophrenia

School

School Dropouts

School Readiness

School Years

Scientific Method

Sears, Robert (1870-1937)

Seattle Longitudinal Study

Second Languages

Secure Attachment

Self-Actualization

Self-Concept

Self-Efficacy

Self-Esteem

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Semantic Development

Sensation Seeking

Sensitive Period

Sensory Development

Separation Anxiety

Sex Differences

Sex Education

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Activity

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

Short-Term Memory

Shyness

Siblings

Single-Parent Family

Single Parents

Skinner, B.F. (1904-1990)

Sleep

Smell

Smiling

Social Anxiety Disorder

Social Class

Social Cognition

Social Development

Social Security

Society for Research in Child Development

Sociobiology

Socioeconomic Status

Spanking

Special Needs Children

Stages of Development

Stages of Dying

Stages of Moral Development

Standardized Testing

Statistical Significance

Stepfamilies

Storm and Stress

Strange Situation

Stranger Anxiety

Stress

Stroke

Structural and Functional Brain Imaging

Stuttering

Sucking Behaviors

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Suicide

Superego

Surrogate Mothers

Symbolic Play

T Cells

Tabula Rasa

Taste

Tay-Sachs Disease

Teenage Pregnancy

Television

Temperament

Teratogen

Testosterone

Thalassemia

Thalidomide

Theories of Aging

Theories of Development

Theory of Mind

Toddlerhood

Toilet Training

Touch

Tourette's Syndrome

Toxoplasmosis

Twin Studies

Twins

Ultrasound

Universal Grammar

U.S. Bureau of the Census

Utopianism

Vaccination

Validity

Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW)

Very Old Age

Video Games

Violence

Visual Cliff

Vitamin Deficiency

Volunteering

Vygotsky, Lev (1896-1934)

Watson, John B. (1876-1958)

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)

Weight

Well-Baby Checkup

Whole Language

Widowhood and Widowerhood

Wisdom

Work

World Health Organization

Wright, John C. (1933-2001)

Young Adulthood

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

Zygote

Tables and Figures on Selected Aspects of Human Development