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

• 10.2 -Delay of Gratification - Long Term Outcomes
  This video describes the connection between delay of gratification and later outcomes related to adult inhibition and self discipline.

• 10.3 - Anxiety and Depression in Childhood and Adolescence
  A pediatric psychologist discusses anxiety disorders and depression in children.

• 10.4 - Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  This video describes oppositional defiant disorder and how the family environment can be changed to reduce the negative impact on the family.

• 10.6 -Separation Anxiety
  Separation anxiety disorder in children is discussed by Dr. Lynn Miller.

• 10.7 - The Strange Situation
  This video shows the sequences in Ainsworth Strange Situation.

• 10.8 - Finding High Quality Child Care
  This video describes what to look for and what to ask when looking for child care, whether it is home-based or center-based care.

• 10.9- Reactive Attachment Disorder
  This video discusses reactive attachment disorder in one family, and shows how a local stable helped a young girl with this disorder.

Video Links

• Universality of Emotions
  Paul Ekman describes his original research on emotions in the 1960s.

• Teaching Empathy
  Suggestions for how to help children develop empathy.

• Development of Self-Control
  APS video on an update of Mischel's marshmallow test.

• Self-Regulation
  Discussion of the research on self-regulation and effortful control and suggestions to help children develop these skills.

• Childhood Depression
  Description of depression across childhood and into adolescence and how to recognize clinical depression.

• Conduct Disorder, Part 2
  Dr. Robert McMahon describes promising programs to prevent conduct problems.

• Conduct Disorder, Part 3
  Dr. Patrick Tolan describes intervention methods designed to identify and prevent conduct problems in at risk youth.

• John Bowlby
  Secure Attachment & the Key Person in Daycare, Introduction to Daycare, Introduction to Attachment

• Psychology - Infant and Child Development (13:53)
  Video provides a look at various aspects of social and emotional development in infancy

• The Strange Situation
  The strange situation and types of attachment

• Child Care and Attachment
  Can I Leave my Baby?, The Key Person, Becoming Attached to a Key Person, Impersonal Daycare, Psychological Defensive Strategies

• Quality of Child Care
  Conclusion, Acknowledgements

Audio Links

• Study: Childhood Temperament Lasts into Adulthood
  A recent study found that shy and cautious toddlers have a distinctive reaction in their brains years later when they see new faces as adults.

• The Golden Rule
  This episode discusses the development and understanding of the Golden Rule in children.

• Could the Lack of Empathy Explain Cruelty?
  Simon Baron-Cohen discusses his research on the empathy spectrum and how an erosion of empathy can explain why some people commit cruel acts.

• Helping Children Develop Self Control
  Two neuroscientists discuss child rearing techniques that can help a child develop self control.