For more information on immaturity, go to the web site for the Brazelton Institute, based in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Boston, which is an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School. Follow the link "The Brazelton Scale: What Is It?" to learn about the Scale. The Scale shows how much such immature creatures as newborns can do in responding to the world. This site also offers a preview for the discussion of the Brazelton Scale in Chapter 5 of the text.
http://www.brazelton-institute.com
For more information on cross-cultural research, go to the web site for the Department of Psychology at the University of Santa Cruz. Select the "Faculty" link and read about the work of faculty members who conduct cross-cultural research in human development: Barbara Rogoff, David Harrington, Ronald Tharp, and Stephen Wright.
http://psych.ucsc.edu
