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Journal Issue: Caring for Infants and Toddlers Volume 11 Number 1 Spring/Summer 2001

Development in the First Years of Life
Authors: Ross A. Thompson

Endnotes

  1. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early childhood development. J.P. Shonkoff and D.A. Phillips, eds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
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  4. For detailed (and readable) discussions of research on the growth of the mind, consult: Flavell, J.H., Miller, P.H., and Miller, S.A. Cognitive development, 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002; Gopnik, A., Meltzoff, A.N., and Kuhl, P.K. The scientist in the crib: Minds, brains, and how children learn. New York: Morrow, 2000.
  5. Bornstein, M.H., and Lamb, M. E. Development in infancy: An introduction, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
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  10. Rogoff, B. Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
  11. For a more extended overview of early psychosocial growth, consult: Thompson, R. Early sociopersonality development. In Handbook of child psychology, 5th edition: Vol. 3, Social, emotional, and personality development. W. Damon and N. Eisenberg, eds. New York: Wiley, 1998, pp. 24–104.
  12. For a current review of research on attachment security, consult: Cassidy, J., and Shaver, P.R. Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications. New York: Guilford, 1999.
  13. Thompson, R.A. The legacy of early attachments. Child Development (2000) 71:145–52.
  14. Kochanska, G., and Thompson, R.A. The emergence and development of conscience in toddlerhood and early childhood. In Parenting and children's internalization of values. J.E. Grusec and L. Kuczynski, eds. New York: Wiley, 1997, pp. 53–77.
  15. Dunn, J. The beginnings of social understanding. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. See also note no. 4, Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl; note no. 11, Thompson.
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  22. Thompson, R.A., and Nelson, C.A. Developmental science and the media: Early brain development. American Psychologist (2001) 56:5–15.
  23. For helpful summaries of research on early brain development, consult: Dawson, G., and Fischer, K.W., eds. Human behavior and the developing brain. New York: Guilford, 1994; Gibson, K.R., and Peterson, A.C., eds. Brain maturation and cognitive development. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991; Johnson, M.H. Developmental cognitive neuroscience: An introduction. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1997.
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