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PSYC 305 Course Readings

Lawrence Kohlberg

Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development

Critiques of Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

John Locke

Some thoughts concerning education

Mary Ainsworth

Mary Ainsworth
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Mary Ainsworth: The Strange Situation/Attachment Styles

Paul Baltes

Paul Baltes
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Obituary

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura
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Nancy Bayley

Nancy Bayley
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Bayley Scales Of Infant and Toddler Development

John Bowlby

John Bowlby
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Bowlby's Attachment Theory
What Is Attachment Theory? The Importance of Early Emotional Bonds

T. Berry Brazelton

The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
T. Berry Brazelton
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The Touchpoints Model of Development

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Discovering What Families Do

Jerome Bruner

Jerome Bruner
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Bruner-Learning Theory in Education

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud
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Arnold Gesell

Stanley Hall

Stanley Hall
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G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924)

Additional Resources - Article

Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences
(Click on PDF Full Text on the left) In this article we propose that angels in the nursery—care‐receiving experiences characterized by intense shared affect between parent and child in which the child feels nearly perfectly understood, accepted, and loved—provide the child with a core sense of security and self‐worth that can be drawn upon when the child becomes a parent to interrupt the cycle of maltreatment.