In this review, I explore theoretical and empirical approaches to the development of
gender/sex and sexual orientation (SO). Leaving behind the nature versus nurture …

The contribution of cognitive perspectives (cognitive-developmental theory and gender
schema theory) to a contemporary understanding of gender development is evaluated …

Do parents have any important long-term effects on the development of their child's
personality? This article examines the evidence and concludes that the answer is no. A new …

Piaget's cognitive-stage theory and the neo-piagetians-Freud's and erikson's psychoanalytic
theories-Social learning theory-Information-processing theory-Ethology and other …

Being born a girl or a boy has implications that carry considerably beyond chromosomal,
hormonal, and genital differences. In this chapter, we consider the developmental processes …

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but
this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being" blank slates" that …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Challenging the view that implicit social cognition emerges from protracted social learning,
research now suggests that intergroup preferences are present at adultlike levels in early …

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing emphasis on studying the link
between infant speech perception and later language acquisition. This research has yielded …

Previous studies of infants' comprehension of words estimated the onset of this ability at 9
months or later. However, these estimates were based on responses to names of relatively …