Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This shortened paperbound version of Infants, Children, and Adolescents covers the prenatal through middle childhood years (through age 10) containing the complete chapters 1-13 of Laura Berk's full-length text.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 History, Theory, and Research Strategies
• The Field of Child Development
• Periods of Development
• Domains of Development
• Basic Issues
• Continuous or Discontinuous Development?
• One Course of Development or Many?
• Nature or Nurture as More Important?
• A Balanced Point of View
• Historical Foundations
• Medieval Times
• The Reformation
• Philosophies of the Enlightenment
• Darwin's Theory of Evolution
• Scientific Beginnings
• Mid-Twentieth-Century Theories
• The Psychoanalytic Perspective
• Behaviorism and Social Learning Theory
• Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory
• Recent Theoretical Perspectives
• Information Processing
• Ethology
• Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory
• Ecological Systems Theory
• New Directions: Development as a Dynamic System
• Comparing Child Development Theories
• Studying the Child
• Common Methods of Gathering Information
• General Research Designs
• Designs for Studying Development
• Ethics in Research on Children
• 2 Biological and Environmental Foundations
• Genetic Foundations
• The Genetic Code
• The Sex Cells
• Boy or Girl? Multiple Births
• Patterns of Genetic Inheritance
• Chromosomal Abnormalities
• Reproductive Choices
• Genetic Counseling
• Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Medicine
• The Alternative of Adoption
• Environmental Contexts for Development
• The Family
• Socioeconomic Status and Family Functioning
• The Impact of Poverty
• Beyond the Family: Neighborhoods, Schools, Towns, and Cities
• The Cultural Context
• Understanding the Relationship Between Heredity and Environment
• The Question, "How Much?" The Question, "How?"
• 3 Prenatal Development
• Motivations for Parenthood
• Why Have Children? How Large a Family?
• Is There a Best Time During Adulthood to Have a Child?
• Prenatal Development
• Conception
• The Period of the Zygote
• The Period of the Embryo
• The Period of the Fetus
• Prenatal Environmental Influences
• Teratogens
• Other Maternal Factors
• The Importance of Prenatal Health Care
• Preparing for Parenthood
• Seeking Information
• The Baby Becomes a Reality
• Models of Effective Parenthood
• Practical Concerns
• The Parental Relationship
• 4 Birth and the Newborn Baby
• The Stages of Childbirth
• Stage 1: Dilation and Effacement of the Cervix
• Stage 2: Delivery of the Baby
• Stage 3: Birth of the Placenta
• The Baby's Adaptation to Labor and Delivery
• The Newborn Baby's Appearance
• Assessing the Newborn's Physical Condition: The Apgar Scale
• Approaches to Childbirth
• Natural, or Prepared, Childbirth
• Home Delivery
• Medical Interventions
• Fetal Monitoring
• Labor and Delivery Medication
• Instrument Delivery
• Induced Labor
• Cesarean Delivery
• Birth Complications
• Oxygen Deprivation
• Preterm and Low-Birth-Weight Infants
• Postterm Infants
• Understanding Birth Complications
• Precious Moments after Birth