Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams.

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Author Chapter Summary Video

Chapter Video

• 1.1 - Early Child Care  
  Short video on a study examining the link between child care, academic achievement, and behavior. This study was conducted by the National Institutes of Health.

• 1.2 - Alan Sroufe  
  Short video of Alan Sroufe, Ph.D. discussing attachment theory and how attachment patterns influence later development

• 1.3 - Peer Review  
  This is a five minute video explaining the process of peer-review process and its significance to new knowledge and scholarly research.

• 1.4 - Career Psychologist  
  An overview of the day to day working life of a clinical psychologist.

• 1.5 - Careers in Early Intervention  
  A look at the variety of careers associated with early intervention with children

Video Links

• The Science of Early Childhood Development  
  Jack Shonkoff talks about early experience and its effects on development.

• Misconceptions about Early Child Development   
  Results of a survey about parents’ misconceptions about child development by Ross Thompson of the organization Zero to Three

• InBrief: Early Childhood Program Effectiveness

• Nature and nurture- Sir Michael Rutter

• Nature vs. Nurture 2 (1:38)  
  An introduction to the nature vs. nurture debate with brief interviews from professionals in the psychology field.

• Childhood Poverty

• Working Effectively with Children of the Incarcerated, their Parents and Caregivers (Parents’ Voices)

• Research Minutes: How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles (1:45)  
  A brief presentation by Cornell University on being able to identify scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal articles.