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1. Introduction. I. SEVEN STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED COGNITIVE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. 2. From mollusks to Rugrats: Biological Principles and Psychological Ideas. 3. When Thinking Begins. Piaget, J. (1952). The origins of intelligence in children. New York: International Universities Press. 4. A Marxist Revolution in Psychology. Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 5. The Eyes Have It. Fantz, R. L. (1961). The origin of form perception. Scientific American, 204, 66-72. 6. The Drawbridge Studies. Baillageon, R. (1987). Object permanence in 3.5- and 4.5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 23, 655-664. 7. "Do You Know What I Know?" Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. (1978). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 515-526. 8. Language Development and the Big Bang Theory. Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic structures. The Hague: Mouton. 9. Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. Brown, R. (1973). A first language: The early stages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. II. SIX STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTING. 10. She Loves Me, But She Loves Me Not. Harlow, H., & Harlow, M. (1965). The affectional systems. In A. Schrier, H. Harlow, & F. Stollnitz (Eds.), Behavior of non-human primates. New York: Academic Press. 11. The Invisible Bungee Cord. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss, Vol. 1. New York: Basic Books. 12. What a Strange Situation. Ainsworth, M.D.S., Blehar, M.C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 13. "This Is Gonna Hurt You a lot More Than It''s Gonna hurt Me." Baumrind, D. (1971). Current patterns of parental authority. Developmental psychology Monographs, 4 (1, part 2). 14. Monkey See, Monkey Do. Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. (1961). Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 375-382. 15. The Ethic of Care: It''s a Woman Thing. Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women''s development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. III. THREE STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 16. "If You Were Born first, I Would''ve Stopped." Thomas, A., Chess, S., & Birch, H.G. (1968). Temperament and behavior disorders in childhood. New York: New York University Press. 17. Armadillos Aren''t the Only Mammals That Grow Armor. Werner, E.E., & Smith, R.S. (2001). Journey from childhood to midlife: Risk, resilience, and recovery. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 18. Keep the Baby and the Bathwater. Sameroff, A.J., & Chandler, M.J. (1975). Reproductive risk and the continuum of caretaker causality. In F.D. Horowitz (Ed.), Review of child development research (Vol. 4). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. IV. FOUR STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED HOW WE DO AND THINK ABOUT CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 19. Choreographing the Nature-Nurture Dance. Anastasi, A. (1958). Heredity, environment, and the question "How?" Psychological Review, 89, 976 984. 20. What Comes Around Goes Around. Bell, R.Q. (1968). A reinterpretation of the direction of effect in studies of socialization. Psychological Review, 75, 81-95. 21. Development Lessons from Kitten Brains. Hubel, D.H., & Wiesel, T.N. (1965). Receptive fields of cells in striate cortex of very young, visually inexperienced kittens. Journal of Neurophysiology, 26, 944-1002. 22. Governments, Grade Schools, and Grocery Stores: Multiple Levels of Influence. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward an experimental ecology of human development. American Psychologist, 32, 513-531.
