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Infancy

Baillargeon, R. (1994). Physical reasoning in young infants: Seeking explanations for impossible events. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12(1), 9-33. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-835X.1994.tb00616.x

Caspi, A., McClay, J. L., Moffitt, T. E., Mill, J., Martin, J. L., Craig, I. W., . . . Poulton, R. (2002). Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children. Science, 297(5582), 851-854. doi: 10.1126/science.1072290

Fantz, R. L. (1961). The origin of form perception. Scientific American, 204(5), 66-72. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0561-66

Fantz, R. L. (1963). Pattern vision in newborn infants Science, 140(3564), 296-297. doi: 10.1126/science.140.3564.296

MacFarlane, A. (1975). Olfaction in the development of social preferences in human neonate. In R. Porter & M. O'Connor (Eds.), Ciba Foundation Symposium 33 - Parent-Infant Interaction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Meltzoff, A. N., & Moore, M. K. (1977). Imitation of facial and manual gestures by human neonates. Science, 198(4312), 75-78. doi: 10.1126/science.198.4312.75

Moon, C., Cooper, R. P., & Fifer, W. P. (1993). Two-day-olds prefer their native language. Infant Behavior and Development, 16(4), 495-500. doi: 10.1016/0163-6383(93)80007-U

Attachment

Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1964). Patterns of attachment behavior shown by the infant in interaction with his mother. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavior and Development, 10(1), 51-58. 

Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1970). Object relations, dependency, and attachment: A theoretical review of the infant-mother relationship. Child Development, 40(4), 969-1025. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1969.tb04561.x

Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1979). Infant-mother attachment. American Psychologist, 34(10), 932-937. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.34.10.932

Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. N. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Blehar, M. C., Lieberman, A. F., & Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1977). Early face-to-face interaction and its relation to later infant-mother attachment. Child Development, 48(1), 182-194. doi: 10.2307/1128897

Bowlby, J. (1946). Forty-four juvenile thieves: Their characters and home-life. The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 19-53. 

Cohen, N. J., Lojkasek, M., Yaghoub Zadeh, Z., Pugliese, M. , & Kiefer, H. . (2008). Children adopted from China: A longitudinal study of their growth and development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(4), 458-468. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01853.x

Grossmann, K. E., Grossmann, K., Huber, F., & Wartner, U. (1981). German children's behavior towards their mothers at 12 months and their fathers at 18 months in Ainsworth's strange situation. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 4(2), 157-181. doi: 10.1177/016502548100400202

Harlow, H. F., & Suomi, S. J. (1971). Social recovery in isolation-reared monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 68(7), 1534-1538. doi: 10.1073/pnas.68.7.1534

Miller, L., & Hendrie, N. W. (2000). Health of children adopted from China. Pediatrics, 105(6), 1-6. doi: 10.1542/peds.105.6.e76

Pomerleau, A., Malcuit, G., Chicoine, J.-F., Seguin, R., Belhumeur, C., Germain, P., . . . Jeliu, G. (2005). Health status, cognitive and motor development of young children adopted from China, East Asia and Russia across the first six months after adoption International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29(5), 445-457. doi: 10.1177/01650250500206257

Rothbaum, F., Weisz, J., Pott, M., Miyake, K., & Morelli, G. (2000). Attachment and culture: Security in the United States and Japan. American Psychologist, 55(10), 1093-1104. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.55.10.1093

Takahashi, K. (1986). Examining the strange-situation procedure with Japanese mothers and 12-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 22(2), 265-270. doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.22.2.265

Language Development

Baldwin, D. A. (1991). Infants' contribution to the achievement of joint reference. Child Development, 62(5), 875-890. doi: 10.2307/1131140

Baldwin, D. A. (1993). Early referential understanding: Infants' ability to recognize referential acts for what they are. Developmental Psychology, 29(5), 832-843. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.29.5.832

Berko, J. (1958). The child's learning of English morphology. Word, 14(2-3), 150-177. doi: 10.1080/00437956.1958.11659661

Bloom, P., & Markson, L. (1998). Capacities underlying word learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(2), 67-73. doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01121-8

Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (1994). Production and comprehension of referential pointing by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 108(4), 307-317. doi: 10.1037//0735-7036.108.4.307

Chamberlain, A.F., & Chamberlain, I. C. (1907). Studies of a child. Pedagogical Seminary, 11(3), 264-291. doi: 10.1080/08919402.1904.10534101

Chomksy, N. (1972). Language and mind. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Cooper, R. P., & Aslin, R. N. (1990). Preference for infant-directed speech in the first month after birth. Child Development, 61(5), 1584-1595. doi: 10.2307/1130766

Dabrowska, E. (2015). What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it? . Frontiers in Psychology, 6(852), 1-17. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00852

Fernald, A. (1985). Four-month-old infants prefer to listen to motherese. Infant Behavior and Development, 8(2), 181-195. doi: 10.1016/S0163-6383(85)80005-9

Fouts, R. S., Hirsch, A. D., & Fouts, D. H. (1982). Cultural transmission of a human language in a chimpanzee mother-infant relationship. In H. Fitzgerald, J. Mullins & P. Gage (Eds.), Child nurturance: Studies of development in nonhuman primates. New York: Plenum Press.

Goldfield, B. A., & Reznick, J. S. (1996). Measuring the vocabulary spurt: A reply to Mervis and Bertrand. Journal of Child Language, 23(1), 241-246. doi: 10.1017/S0305000900010175

Goodall, J. (1986). The chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hart, B., & Risley, T. (1995). Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children. Baltimore: Brookes.

Hoff, E. (2003). The specificity of environmental influence: Socioeconomic status affects early vocabulary development via maternal speech. Child Development, 74(5), 1368-1378. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.00612

Hoff, E. (2003). Causes and consequences of SES-related differences in parent-to-child speech. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development (pp. 147-160). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Hoff-Ginsberg, E. (1991). Mother-child conversation in different social classes and communicative settings. Child Development, 62(4), 782-796. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01569.x

Krcmar, M., Grela, B., & Lin, K. (2007). Can toddlers learn vocabulary from television? An experimental approach. Media Psychology, 10(1), 41-63. doi: 10.1080/15213260701300931

Leavens, D. A., & Hopkins, W. D. (1999). The whole-hand point: The structure and function of pointing from a comparative perspective. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113(4), 417-425. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.113.4.417

Lenneberg, E. (1967). Biological foundations of language. New York: Wiley.

Marcus, G. F. (1995). Children's overregularization of English plurals: A quantitative analysis. Journal of Child Language, 22(2), 447-459. doi: 10.1017/S0305000900009879

Marcus, G. F., Pinker, S., Ullman, M. T., Hollander, M., Rosen, T. J., & Xu, F. (1992). Overregularization in language acquisition. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 57(4), 1-182. doi: 10.2307/1166115

Mayberry, R. I., & Eichen, E. B. (1991). The long-lasting advantage of learning sign language in childhood: Another look at the critical period for language acquisition. Journal of Memory and Language, 30(4), 486-512. doi: 10.1016/0749-596X(91)90018-F

McCarthy, D. (1946). Language development in children. In L. Carmichael (Ed.), Manual of Child Psychology (pp. 476-581). Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons.

Miles, H. L. (1990). The cognitive foundations for reference in a signing orangutan. In S. T. Parker & K. R. Gibson (Eds.), "Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes: Comparative developmental perspectives (pp. 511-539). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Moon, C., Cooper, R. P., & Fifer, W. P. (1993). Two-day-olds prefer their native language. Infant Behavior and Development, 16(4), 495-500. doi: 10.1016/0163-6383(93)80007-U

Petitto, L., & Marentette, P. (1991). Babbling in the manual mode: Evidence for the ontogeny of language. Science, 251(5000), 1493-1496. doi: 10.1126/science.2006424

Ramirez-Esparza, N., Garcia-Sierra, A., & Kuhl, P. K. (2014). Look who’s talking: Speech style and social context in language input are linked to concurrent and future speech development. Developmental Science, 17(6), 880-891. doi: 10.1111/desc.12172

Reich, P. A. (1976). The early acquisition of word meaning. Journal of Child Language, 3(1), 117-123. doi: 10.1017/S0305000900001343

Sachs, J., Bard, B., & Johnson, M. L. (1981). Language learning with restricted input: Case studies of two hearing children of deaf parents. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2(1), 33-54. doi: 10.1017/S0142716400000643

Savage-Rumbaugh, E. S., McDonald, K., Sevcik, R. A., Hopkins, W. D., & Rubert, E. (1986). Spontaneous symbol acquisition and communicative use by pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 115(3), 211-235. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.115.3.211

Skinner, B. F. (1989). Science and human behavior. New York: Macmillan.

Tardiff, T., Fletcher, P. , Liang, W., Zhang, Z., Kaciroti, N., & Marchman, V. A. (2008). Baby’s first ten words. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 929-938. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.929 

Tomasello, M., Strosberg, R., & Akhtar, N. (1996). Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts. Journal of Child Language, 23(1), 157-176. doi: 10.1017/S0305000900010138

Werker, J. F. (1989). Becoming a native listener. American Scientist, 71(1), 54-59. 

Werker, J. F., Gilbert, J. H. V., Humphrey, K., & Tees, R. C. (1981). Developmental aspects of cross-language speech perception. Child Development, 52(1), 349-355. doi: 10.2307/1129249 

Werker, J. F., & Lalonde, C. E. (1988). Cross-language speech perception: Initial capabilities and developmental change. Developmental Psychology, 24(5), 672-683. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.24.5.672

Adolescence

Jones, H. E. (1943). Development in adolescence. New York: Appleton-Century.

Schlegel, A., & Barry, H., III. Adolescence: An anthropological inquiry. New York: Free Press.

Simmons, R. G., Blyth, D. A., & McKinney, K. L. (1983). The social and psychological effects of puberty on white females. In J. Brooks-Gunn & A. C. Peterson (Eds.), Girls at puberty (pp. 229-272). New York: Springer.

Tanner, J. M., Whitehouse, R. H., & Takaishi, M. (1966). Standards from birth to maturity for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity: British children, 1965 part II. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 41(220), 613-635. doi: 10.1136/adc.41.220.613

Thompson-Schill, S. L., Ramscar, M., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2009). Cognition without control: When a little frontal lobe goes a long way. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(5), 259-263. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01648.x

Wechsler, H., Lee, J. E., Kuo, M., Seibring, M., Nelson, T. F., & Lee, H. (2002). Trends in college binge drinking during a period of increased prevention efforts: Findings from 4 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study surveys: 1993–2001. Journal of American College Health, 50(5), 203-217. doi: 10.1080/07448480209595713

Yamamiya, Y., Cash, T. F., Melnyk, S. E., Posavac, H. D., & Posavac, S. S. (2005). Women’s exposure to thin-and-beautiful media images: Body image effects of media-ideal internalization and impact-reduction interventions. Body Image, 2(1), 74-80. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2004.11.001

Social Development

Amsterdam, B. (1972). Mirror self-image reactions before age two. Developmental Psychobiology, 5(4), 297-305. doi: 10.1002/dev.420050403

Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A. M., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind”? Cognition, 21(1), 37-46. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(85)90022-8

Davidov, M., Zahn-Waxler, C., Roth-Hanania, R., & Knafo, A. (2013). Concern for others in the first year of life: Theory, evidence, and avenues for research. Child Development Perspectives, 7(2), 126-131. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12028

Field, T. M., Woodson, R., Greenberg, R., & Cohen, D. (1982). Discrimination and imitation of facial expressions by neonates. Science, 218(4568). doi: 10.1126/science.7123230

Goren, C. C., Sarty, M., & Wu, P. Y. K. (1975). Visual following and pattern discrimination of face-like stimuli by newborn infants. Pediatrics, 56(4), 544-549. 

Hoffman, M. L. (2000). Empathy and moral development: Implications for caring and justice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lewis, M., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1979). Social cognition and the acquisition of self. New York: Plenum.

Nielsen, M., Suddendorf, T., & Slaughter, V. (2006). Mirror self-recognition beyond the face. Child Development, 77(1), 176-185. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00863.x

Repacholi, B. M., & Gopnik, A. (1997). Early reasoning about desires: Evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 33(1), 12-21. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.33.1.12

Simner, M. L. (1971). Newborn’s response to the cry of another infant. Developmental Psychology, 5(1), 136-150. doi: 10.1037/h0031066

Suddendorf, T., Simcock, G., & Nielsen, M. (2007). Visual self-recognition in mirrors and live videos: Evidence for a developmental asynchrony. Cognitive Development, 22(2), 185-196. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.09.003

Tronick, E., Als, H., Adamson, L., Wise, S., & Brazelton, T. B. (1978). The infant's response to entrapment between contradictory messages in face-to-face interaction. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychology, 17(1), 1-13. doi: 10.1016/S0002-7138(09)62273-1

Walker-Andrews, A. S. (1997). Infants' perception of expressive behaviors: Differentiation of multimodal information. Psychological Bulletin, 121(3), 437-456. doi: 10.1037//0033-2909.121.3.437

Wellman, H. M., Cross, D., & Watson, J. (2001). Meta-analysis of theory-of-mind development: The truth about false belief. Child Development, 72(3), 655-684. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.00304

Wimmer, H., & Perner, J. (1983). Beliefs about beliefs: Representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. Cognition, 13(1), 103-128. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(83)90004-5

Moral Development

Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1963). Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 66(1), 3-11. doi: 10.1037/h0048687

Baumrind, D. (1967). Child care practices anteceding three patterns of preschool behavior. Genetic Psychology Monographs, 75(1), 43-88. 

Colby, A., Kohlberg, L., Gibbs, J., Lieberman, M., Fischer, K., & Saltzstein, H. D. (1983). A longitudinal study of moral judgment. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 48(1-2), 1-124. doi: 10.2307/1165935

Smetana, J. G. (1999). The role of parents in moral development: A social domain analysis. Journal of Moral Education, 28(3), 311-321. doi: 10.1080/030572499103106

Cognitive Development

Baillargeon, R., & DeVos, J. (1991). Object permanence in young infants: Further evidence. Child Development, 62(6), 1227-1246. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01602.x

Barr, R., Dowden, A., & Hayne, H. (1996). Developmental changes in deferred imitation by 6- to 24-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 19(2), 159-170. doi: 10.1016/S0163-6383(96)90015-6

Byrnes, J. P. (1988). Formal operations: A systematic reformulation. Developmental Review, 8(1), 66-87. doi: 10.1016/0273-2297(88)90012-3

Collie, R., & Hayne, H. (1999). Deferred imitation by 6- and 9-month-old infants: More evidence for declarative memory. Developmental Psychobiology, 35(2), 83-90. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199909)35:2<83::AID-DEV1>3.0.CO;2-S

Gopnik, A. (2012). Scientific thinking in young children: Theoretical advances, empirical research, and policy implications. Science, 337(6102), 1623-1627. doi: 10.1126/science.1223416

Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2010). Infants consider both the sample and the sampling process in inductive generalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(20), 9066-9071. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1003095107

Kearins, J. (1986). Visual spatial memory in Aboriginal and White Australian children. Australian Journal of Psychology, 38(3), 203-214. doi: 10.1080/00049538608259009

Kuhn, D., Garcia-Mila, M., Zohar, A., & Andersen, C. (1995). Strategies of knowledge acquisition. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60(4). doi: 10.2307/1166059

Xu, F., & Garcia, V. (2008). Intuitive statistics by 8-month-old infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(13), 5012-5015. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704450105

Later Life Development

Psych 1030 – Intro to Dev Psych – Later Life References

Baek, Y., Martin, P., Siegler, I. C., Davey, A., & Poon, L. W. (2016). Personality Traits and Successful Aging: Findings From the Georgia Centenarian Study. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 83(3), 207-227.

Bengtson, V. L., & Settersten Jr, R. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of theories of aging. Springer Publishing Company.

Carstensen, L. L., Fung, H. H., & Charles, S. T. (2003). Socioemotional selectivity theory and the regulation of emotion in the second half of life. Motivation and emotion, 27(2), 103-123.

Cicirelli, V. G. (2013). Sibling relationships across the life span. Springer Science & Business Media.

Cohen, G. D. (2006). The mature mind: The positive power of the aging brain. Basic

Ebner, N. C., Freund, A. M., & Baltes, P. B. (2006). Developmental changes in personal goal orientation from young to late adulthood: from striving for gains to maintenance and prevention of losses. Psychology and aging, 21(4), 664.

Fernández-Ballesteros, R., Robine, J. M., Walker, A., & Kalache, A. (2013). Active aging: a global goal. Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research.

Fung, H.H. (2013).  Aging in Culture. Gerontologist, 53(3), 369-377.

Head, J., Chungkham, H. S., Hyde, M., Zaninotto, P., Alexanderson, K., Stenholm, S., ... & Vahtera, J. (2016). Socioeconomic differences in healthy life expectancy: Evidence from four prospective cohort studies. The European Journal of Public Health, 26(suppl 1), ckw171-050.

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Wrzus, C., Hänel, M., Wagner, J., & Neyer, F. J. (2013). Social network changes and life events across the life span: A meta-analysis. Psychological bulletin, 139(1), 53.

Zimmermann, H. P., & Grebe, H. (2014). “Senior coolness”: Living well as an attitude in later life. Journal of aging studies, 28, 22-34.

Myths Tests

Lilienfield, S.O., Lynn, S.J., Ruscio, J., & Beyerstein, B.L. (2009). 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior