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Children 7/e Book Cover
Children, 7/e
John W. Santrock, University of Texas, Dallas
Cognitive Development in Infancy

Web Links (Referenced in Text Margins)

Piaget's Stages
(http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/piaget.htm)

Covers all four of Piaget's stages- sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Cognitive Milestones
(http://www.sesameworkshop.org/oops/0,1451,herry,00.html)

Read about a number of cognitive changes in infancy.
Challenges to Piaget
(http://www.dadi.org/theoryx2.htm)

Interviews with leading developmental psychology researchers such as Susan Gelman, Andrew Meltzoff, and Alison Gopnik discuss recent theory and research that challenge some of Piaget's ideas.
Infant Cognition
(http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/spelke)

Read about research on infant cognition.
Infant Memory Research
(http://www.education.umn.edu/icd/faculty/Nelson.htm)

The web page of Charles Nelson's Laboratory and the University of Minnesota with information about infant's ability to recognize objects, babies' recognition of faces and toys, adult and infant memory, and other aspects of memory development. A parent newsletter and links to other related sites are available.
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
(http://www.parinc.com/product.cfm?ProductID=39)

Describes the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, including the improvements in the 2nd Ed. of Scales.
Children and Poverty
(http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info.htm?doc_id=7214)

This issue of The Future of Children focuses on children and poverty, including strategies of reducing child poverty including a number of federally funded programs.
National Center for Children in Poverty
(http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/)

The mission of the center is to identify and promote strategies for reducing poverty in young children; includes current and past issues of the Center's newsletter.
Zero to Three
(http://www.zerotothree.org/)

This national center for infants, toddlers, and children is dedicated to improving their well-being. Includes information about many aspects of development. The developmental milestones that are described are especially helpful.
Language Milestones
(http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/parents/speechandlanguage.htm)

Explore language milestones at different points in infancy and early childhood.
The Naming Explosion
(http://www.ccp.uchicago.edu/overview/developmental/amanda.ss.html)

Explore this language milestone from 18-21 months of age.
Brain and Language Development
(http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/langu.html)

Communicating with Babies
(http://www.babysigns.com/babysigns_faq.shtml)

Babbling
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/721554.stm)









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