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Life-Span Development, 8/e
John W. Santrock, University of Texas - Dallas

Early Childhood
Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Taking it to the Net

1. Professor Issacson has asked his students to try and place Piaget's theories in the context of contemporary research. What should students know about how Piaget's theories stack up in relation to recent research findings?

http://www.dadi.org/theoryx2.htm

2. Alexander is majoring in elementary education. He wants to know if any of Vygotsky's theories have found their way into the elementary school classroom. What will he discover?

http://bestpraceduc.org/TOTM/Techniques.html

3. Karen, who is working in a prosecutor's office for her senior internship, has been asked to write a memo on the suggestibility of child witnesses and how likely a jury is to believe a child's testimony in court cases. How can she find information for the memo that provides research-based facts as well as guidelines for dealing with child witnesses that will be helpful for the procecutors?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/readings/childwitnesses.html