• The Developmental Psychology Links
• The Developmental Stages of Erik Eriksen [Eriksen was a theoritician. As you read this ask yourself, what evidence is there for these stages; how would you test his hypotheses?]
• Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
• Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
• "Blame Your Peers, Not Your Parents." Judith Harris's Theory of peer influence on child and adolescent development.
• "The Teen Brain - A work in Progress."
• Teenage brain development: affadavit by Ruben Gur This affadavit is presented as an argument against the death penalty for a Texas teen. Good summary of research on brain maturation in late teen years.
• Delaney, S. A., Delaney, A. E., and Hearth, A. H. Having our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years. New York: Dell, 1994.
• Blum, Deborah. Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection. New York: Perseus Publishing, 2002.
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Shaw, Philip, et. al. (2006) Intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolescents.
Nature 440, 676-679 (30 March 2006) (Link is to abstract only).
• Related article in Washington Post, April 2, 2006
• Baby Got Math - news report on the ability of 6-month old infants to discriminate between 2 and 3 objects and voices.