Chapter Outline

The Story of Sara and Her Developing Sense of Morality and Values

Emotional and Personality Development

• The Self
  • Initiative Versus Guilt
  • Self-Understanding
• Emotional Development
  • Developmental Timetable of Young Children's Emotion Language and Understanding
  • Self-Conscious Emotions
  • Regulation of Emotion
  • Helping Children Understand Emotions
• Moral Development
  • What Is Moral Development?
  • Piaget's View of How Children's Moral Reasoning Develops
  • Moral Behavior
  • Moral Feelings
• Gender
  • What Is Gender?
  • Biological Influences
  • Social Influences
  • Psychoanalytic and Social Cognitive Theories
  • Parental Influences
  • Peer Influences
  • School and Teacher Influences
  • Media Influences
  • Cognitive Influences

Families

• Parenting Styles
• Child Abuse
  • The Multifaceted Nature of Abuse
  • Severity of Abuse
  • The Cultural Context of Abuse
  • Family Influences
  • Developmental Consequences of Abuse
• Parenting: Nature or Nurture?
• Good Parenting Takes Time and Effort
• Sibling Relationships and Birth Order
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Birth Order