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Children, 7/e
John W. Santrock, University of Texas, Dallas

Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood

Additional Internet Resources

American Academy of Pediatrics
(http://www.aap.org)

American Medical Association
(http://www.ama-assn.org)

APA site
(http://www.apa.org)

Offers a multitude of options for learning about pregnancy, childbirth options, and other topics covered in this chapter.
APS site
(http://www.psychologicalscience.org)

The Child Development Website
(http://idealist.com/kt)

Information on children's topics
Creativity Web
(http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative)

This is a must for exploring all aspects of creativity and having fun in the process.
Early Childhood Care and Development
(http://www.ecdgroup.com)

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
(http://www.ed.gov/pubs/pubdb.html)

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, leads to numerous documents related to early childhood education-anyone involved in education or developmental psychology would be wise to bookmark this site for ease of reference
Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences
(http://federation.apa.org/)

Be sure to check the Federation news for brief articles and go to the Research Monograph link where some of the particularly relevant papers are available on-line, although others would need to be ordered
Harvard Center for Children's Health
(http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/children)

Health Answers
(http://www.healthanswers.com/)

A site to check out a wide range of topics on health for individuals of all ages; for this chapter, do a search for mental retardation.
Healthfinder
(http://healthfinder.gov)

Kaiser Permanente's website
(http://www.kaiserpermanente.org)

A good place to search for information concerning pediatric care and well-being
Kidsource
(http://www5.kidsource.com/Forums)

This site is a forum for parents and educators to talk about children on a wide range of topics, of particular interest in this chapter are learning disabilities and giftedness.
Dr. C. Everett Koop's website
(http://www.drkoop.com)

Remember that he was Surgeon General during Clinton's first term; he has a wealth of understandable information on just about any topic in medicine and psychology
Links to Websites related to psychology

Psychweb
(http://www.psychweb.com)

Psychcrawler
(http://www.psychcrawler.com)

a source for limited research
Mayo Health O@sis
(http://www.mayoclinic.org)

Medscape
(http://www.medscape.com)

Free database of medical articles, plus access to medical dictionaries, drug databases, and breaking medical news
Memoryzine
(http://www.memoryzine.com)

A source for information about memory throughout the lifespan
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
(http://www.naeyc.org)

National Institutes of Health
(http://www.nih.gov)

Starting point for getting into any subagency of NIH
National Institute of Mental Health
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov)

Excellent resource for policy statements, NIMH research, grants-
The National Parent Information Network
(http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/npin)

New England Journal of Medicine
(http://www.nejm.org)

Abstracts to articles, full text on letters, and commentaries)
New York University Infant Cognition Center
(http://www.psych.nyu.edu/infant)

NYU's Infant Cognition Center's site presenting current research studies on how babies think. Contact information is provided for parents who are interested in having their children participate in the studies.
Online Psychology Website
(http://www.onlinepsych.com/index.html)

Links to a variety of different topics
Project Zero
(http://pzweb.harvard.edu)

Harvard's Project Zero conducts longitudinal research in adults' and children's learning processes
Scientific American
(http://www.sciam.com)

General scientific resource
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
(http://www.srcd.org/)

The Website for SRCD, an organization whose purposes are to promote multidisciplinary research in the field of human development, to foster the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals of various disciplines, and to encourage applications of research findings.
Web MD
(http://www.webmd.com)

Offers a wide variety of information for the medical profession and for consumers.