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 …

Children's thinking is highly variable at every level of analysis, from neural and associative
levels to the level of strategies, theories, and other aspects of high‐level cognition. This …

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE; An Advanced Textbook; Eighth Edition Page 1 DOI: 10.4324/9781003387145-8
Introduction: The Importance of Motor Development Motor behavior is critical to developmental …

The study of how infants and children come to control their bodies is perhaps the oldest topic
in scientific developmental psychology. Yet, for many years the study of motor development …

Systems and Development: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Page 1 3 Self-Organization
in Developmental Processes: Can Systems Approaches Work? Esther Thelen Indiana …

Infants' advances in locomotion relate to advances in communicative development.
However, little is known about these relations in infants at risk for delays in these domains …

The process of change represents a main, central issue for the study of development. Basic
and applied researchers in developmental science have aimed their research work at …

We describe the relationship between the dynamic systems approach to development and a
recent approach to the dynamics of representational states–the dynamic field approach …

When parents brag about their baby's accomplishments and document their infant's
developmental achievements on calendars and smart phones, they tend to focus on …