A great Internet source for information about a wide range of children's issues. Includes extensive links to education, safety, the media, health, parenting, children around the world, and many other topics. (
http://www.childrennow.orgl
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This global network provides extensive information about children's rights and whether their needs are being met in many countries around the world. Includes links to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, child rights publications, and links to related topics. (
http://www.crin.org
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Very up-to-date information about children's rights around the world. Provides information about UNICEF's State of the World's Children reports and many other aspects of children's well-being and rights. (
http://www.unicef.org/
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The U.S. Administration on Aging web site with access to information about many aging issues, such as elder abuse, health care, and the adequacy of caregiving. Also includes statistics regarding a number of different areas of older people's lives. (
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov
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Searchable databases about many aspects of aging are provided, along with information about publications on aging that can be obtained. (
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/naic/
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The web site of Division 20, Adult Development and aging, of the American Psychological Association. Includes resources for students, information about publications on adult development and aging, links to organizations involving adult development and aging, and more. (
http://apadiv20.phhp.ufl.edu/
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Find out about this very large, prestigious organization that cuts across a number of disciplines-psychology, medicine, sociology, and others. Read about the Society's journals, the various sections of the Society, and the Society's annual convention. (
http://www.geron.org
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Extensive connections to web sites on such topics as medical aspects of aging, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and clinical psychology. You also can connect through this web site to leading university gerontology centers. (
http://www.premier.net/~gero/geropsyc.html
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The website of the Abraham A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Association with extensive information about Freud’s theory and links to personality research programs with a psychoanalytic orientation. (
http://psychoanalysis.org
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overview of the developmental tasks involved in the social and emotional development of children and teenagers which continues into adulthood. The presentation is based on the Eight Stages of Development developed by psychiatrist, Erik Erikson in 1956 (
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/erickson.shtml
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The web site of the Jean Piaget Society with information about Piaget's theory and links to other sites with information about Piaget's theory. (
http://www.piaget.org/
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Describes the basic views of Vygotsky: includes biographical information and implications of Vygotsky's view for education. (
http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrends/constructivism/vygotsky/
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Explore ethological curiosities, including storage of visual information in ants, calculation by spiders, and imitation by birds. (
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/Ethology.html
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Explores Brofenbrenner's ecological, contextual theory in terms of community diversity issues and a multicultural framework. (
http://www.treatment.org/taps/tap20/tap20debord.html
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Extensive information about correlational research. You can study correlation and causality, uses of the correlational method, how to plan various correlational studies, common mistakes in correlational studies, and understanding correlational statistics. (
http://psychology.about.com/library/weekly/aa070102b.htm
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The web site of the American Psychological Association on ethical principles with information about such topics as respecting others, nondiscrimination, sexual harassment, evaluation, assessment, intervention, teaching, training, supervision, and research. (
http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html
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Explore ethological curiosities, including storage of visual information in ants, calculation by spiders, and imitation by birds. (
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/Ethology.html
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Explore ethological curiosities, including storage of visual information in ants, calculation by spiders, and imitation by birds. (
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/Ethology.html
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