Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Introduction and theories of development -- Biological foundations and developmental psychobiology / Stephen J. Suomi -- Getting organized: an agenda for the first two years of life / Claire B. Kopp, Brian E. Vaughn, and Dante Cicchetti -- Cognitive development / Paul E. McGhee, Claire B. Kopp, and Joanne B. Krakow -- Social development / Nancy Eisenberg -- Language development / Paula Menyuk -- The development of self-knowledge / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Michael Lewis -- The child in the family / Richard M. Lerner, Graham B. Spanier, and Jay Belsky -- The child and the school experience / Marion Blank and Sally Klig -- Peer relations / Willard W. Hartup -- Effects of communications media on children / Aletha Huston and John C. Wright -- Sociocultural risk: dangers to competence / James Garbarino.