Table of Contents “...-- Sex-role concepts and stereotypes -- Explaining sex-role development -- Biological approaches -- Think critically -- Conduct your own research -- Summary -- Key terms -- 11: Development of social relationships -- Relationships with parents -- Attachment theory -- Parent's bond to the child -- Child's attachment to the parent -- Parent-child relationships in adolescence -- Variations in the quality of attachments -- Secure and insecure attachments -- Temperament and attachment -- Stability and long-term consequences of attachment quality -- Relationships with peers -- Peer relationships in infancy and the preschool years -- Peer relationships at school age -- Social status -- Peer relationships in adolescence -- Sibling relationships -- Behavior with peers -- Prosocial behavior -- Aggression -- Developmental science in the real world: Rearing helpful and altruistic children -- Thinking about research: Bullies and victims -- Trait aggression -- Think critically -- Conduct your own research -- Summary -- Key terms -- 12: Thinking about relationships: social-cognitive and moral development -- Development of social cognition -- Some general principles and issues -- Describing other people -- Developmental science in the real world: Learning and unlearning prejudice -- Reading others' feelings -- Thinking about research: Preventing violence by increasing children's emotional competence -- Describing friendships -- Understanding rules and intentions -- Moral development -- Dimensions of moral development -- Kohlberg's stages of moral development -- Causes and consequences of moral development -- Alternative views -- Think critically -- Conduct your own research -- Summary -- Key terms -- Part 6: Whole Child -- 13: Ecology of development: the child within the family system -- Understanding the family system -- Family systems theory -- Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach -- Dimensions of family interaction -- Individuals in the family system -- Warmth and responsiveness -- Methods of control and communication patterns -- Thinking about research: To spank or not to spank? ...”