Preface; Introduction; Ecological Models of Human Development; Urie Bronfenbrenner; Perspectives on Children's Development from Cultural Psychology; Barbara Rogoff & Gilda Morelli; The Stages of the Intellectual Development of the Child; Jean Piaget; Interaction Between Learning and Development; Lev S. Vygotsky; Children of the Garden Island; Emmy E. Werner; PART I: IN THE BEGINNING; Neural Plasticity and Human Development; Charles A. Nelson; Behavioral Aspects of Intergenerational Human Cloning: What Twins Tell Us; Nancy L. Segal; Of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer Their Mothers' Voices; Anthony J. DeCasper and William P. Fifer; Neonatal Behavior Among Urban Zambians and Americans; T. Berry Brazelton, Barbara Koslowski, & Edward Tronick; Temperament and the Reactions to Unfamiliarity; Jerome Kagan; PART II: INFANCY; Early Rule Structure: The Case of "Peekaboo"; Jerome S. Bruner & V. Sherwood; The Development of Infant Memory; Carolyn Rovee-Collier; Becoming a Native Listener; Janet F. Werker; Early Experience and Emotional Development: The Emergence of Wariness of Heights; Joseph J. Campos, Bennett I. Bertenthal, & Rosanne Kermoian; Patterns of Attachment in Two- and Three-Year-Olds in Normal Families and Families with Parental Depression; Marian Radke-Yarrow, E. Mark Cummings, Leon Kuczynski, and Michael Chapman; Facts, Fantasies and the Future of Child Care in the United States; Sandra Scarr, Deborah Phillips, and Kathleen McCartney; PART III: EARLY CHILDHOOD; From Communicating to Talking; Jerome S. Bruner; The Credible Shrinking Room: Very Young Children's Performance With Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Relations; Judy S. DeLoache, Kevin F. Miller, & Karl S. Rosengren; Belief-Desire Reasoning among Baka Children: Evidence for a Universal Conception of Mind; Jeremy Avis & Paul L. Harris; Cultural Differences in American and Mexican Mother-Child Pretend Play; JoAnn M. Farver & Carollee Howes; Gender and Relationships: A Developmental Account; Eleanor E. Maccoby; PART IV: A MIDDLE CHILDHOOD; Cognitive Variability: A Key to Understanding Cognitive Development; Robert S. Siegler; The Role of Age versus Expertise in Peer Collaboration during Joint Planning; Ruth T. Duran & Mary Gauvain; Children's Perceptions of Their Peer Experiences: Attributions, Loneliness, Social Anxiety, and Social Avoidance; Nicki R. Crick & Gary W. Ladd; How Asian Teachers Polish Each Lesson to Perfection; James W. Stigler & Harold W. Stevenson; Gender Differences in Masking Negative Emotions: Ability or Motivation?; Teresa L. Davis; Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns; Ulric Neisser, Gwyneth Boodoo, Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., A. Wade Boykin, Nathan Brody, Stephen J. Ceci, Diane F. Halpern, John C. Loehlin, Robert Perloff, Robert J. Sternberg, & Susana Urbina; PART V: ADOLESCENCE; Adolescent Storm and Stress, Reconsidered; Jeffrey Jensen Arnett; Sleep Schedules and Daytime Functioning in Adolescents; Amy R. Wolfson & Mary A. Carskadon; Development of Logical Reasoning in the Context of Parental Style and Test Anxiety; Mark S. Chapell & Willis F. Overton; Authority, Autonomy, and Parent-Adolescent Conflict and Cohesion: A Study of Adolescents From Mexican, Chinese, Filipino, & European Backgrounds; Andrew J. Fuligni; A Developmental Perspective on Antisocial Behavior; Gerald R. Patterson, Barbara DeBaryshe, & Elizabeth Ramsey.