Summaries per chapter with the 6th edition of How Children Develop by Siegler et al.

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How do children develop perception, action, and learning? - Chapter 5

How does perceptual development work?
What is intermodal perception?
How does motor development progress in children?
How do babies learn?

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How does language develop? - Chapter 6

How does language develop in children?
What components does language have?
What are the requirements for language?
How does the process of language acquisition work?
What are the different theories on language development in children?
How does the use of non-verbal symbols develop?

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How does conceptual development take place? - Chapter 7

How do children learn to understand who and what?
How do children learn to understand why, where, when, and how much?

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What is intelligence and how does it develop? - Chapter 8

What is intelligence?
How can intelligence be measured?
What is the intelligence quotient?
What outcomes can be predicted by intelligence?
What are the influences of genes and environment on intelligence?
What are alternative perspectives on intelligence?
How do children acquire academic skills?

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What are the theories on social development in children? - Chapter 9

What do psychoanalytic theories claim about the social development of children?
What do learning theories claim about the social development of children?
What is the core of social cognition theories?
What is the focus of ecological theories?

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How does emotion development in children take place? - Chapter 10

How do emotions develop in children?
How can we understand emotions?
How do we learn to regulate our emotions?
What is the role of family in emotional development?
What role does temperament play?
What psychological problems can arise in emotion development?

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What do attachment theories say about development? - Chapter 11

Which attachment styles do we distinguish?
How does "the self" develop in children?

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What is the influence of family on the development of children? - Chapter 12

What family structures do we distinguish?
How does child abuse affect the child's development?
What is the effect of the socio-economic context on the development of children?

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What is the influence of peers on the development of a child? - Chapter 13

What is the importance of play?
Why and how do friendships develop?
What effects does friendship have on psychological functioning and behavior of children?
What is the status of a child in the group?
What is the role of the parents in the friendships of their children?

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How does moral development take place? - Chapter 14

How does moral judgment develop in children?
How does prosocial development take place?
Why do children develop agression and antisocial behavior?

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How does gender development take place? - Chapter 15

What is the difference between sex and gender?
How can research compare boys and girls?
What are the theoretical approaches regarding gender development?
How does gender development take place?
What are the different patterns of gender development in terms of physical growth?

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What conclusions can we draw from the chapters of this book? - Chapter 16

What can we conclude about the influence of nature and nurture?
What can we conclude about the role that children play in their own development?
What can we conclude about the (dis)continuity of development?
What conclusions can we draw about the mechanisms of developmental changes?
What conclusions can we draw about the influence of the socio-cultural context on development?
What conclusions can we draw about the influence of individual differences?
What conclusions can we draw about the importance of developmental research?

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