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Child Development: Understanding A Cultural Perspective

Second Edition
by Martin J. Packer

Student Resources

  • Glossary Flashcards
    • Chapter 1: Theoretical Perspectives in Developmental Psychology
    • Chapter 2: Evolution and Human Development
    • Chapter 3: Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn
    • Chapter 4: Infancy: A Practical Understanding of the World
    • Chapter 5: Infancy: Towards Biological Differentiation
    • Chapter 6: Toddlerhood: A World of Irresistible Invitations
    • Chapter 7: Toddlerhood: Towards Psychological Differentiation
    • Chapter 8: Early Childhood: Captured by Appearances
    • Chapter 9: Early Childhood: Origins of Verbal Thought
    • Chapter 10: Middle Childhood: In Work and School
    • Chapter 11: Middle Childhood: Understanding Institutional Roles
    • Chapter 12: The Teenage Years: Adolescent or Adult?
    • Chapter 13: The Teenage Years: Differentiation between Actual and Possible
  • Preface
    • Video Links
  1. Theoretical Perspectives in Developmental Psychology
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  2. Evolution and Human Development
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  3. Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  4. Infancy: A Practical Understanding of the World
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  5. Infancy: Towards Biological Differentiation
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  6. Toddlerhood: A World of Irresistible Invitations
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  7. Toddlerhood: Towards Psychological Differentiation
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  8. Early Childhood: Captured by Appearances
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  9. Early Childhood: Origins of Verbal Thought
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  10. Middle Childhood: In Work and School
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  11. Middle Childhood: Understanding Institutional Roles
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  12. The Teenage Years: Adolescent or Adult?
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions
  13. The Teenage Years: Differentiation between Actual and Possible
    • Video Links
    • Multiple Choice Questions

Video Links

Developmental milestones at 3 years

Vivian Paley, reading from her book, A Child's Work, The Importance of Fantasy Play.

A typical five-year old responding to Piagetian conservation tasks

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, anthropologist and Professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, gives the Annual Marilyn Strathern Lecture on the theme of culture and cosmology

The ‘keen attention’ of Mayan and Mexican-heritage children points to the importance of recognizing the different strengths that children bring to their learning

Early childhood educator Vivian Paley reads from her book A Child's Work, The Importance of Fantasy Play

A lecture by Jarod Diamond: ‘How does childhood differ between traditional societies and modern societies?’

Parenting across cultures: The different ways we raise our children

A 4.5-year-old child with a Piagetian conservation of liquid task

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