Social Development:

Resources here for early child development, development of friendships, self image and self esteem.

• Klaus&Kennel lesson slides.

• Attachment phases mindmap

• Strange Situation powerpoint.

• Kronenberg and van Ijzendoorn - cultural variations in attachment

• Goldfarb & Bowlby 44 thieves lesson.

• Some notes on privation and deprivation

• Rutter's Isle of Wight study into delinquency (1971)

• Daycare and effects

• Some notes on self concept

• Noteslides on self esteem research, and an example of a Coopersmith inventory

• And an exercise on girls' perception of body image

• A mind map for friendship research

Cognitive Development:

Mainly concerned with Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner.  Here are a series of mindmap summaries:

• Overall summary of Piaget

• Piaget- adaptation

• Piaget - four stages

• Vygotsky

Some powerpoints from lessons:

• Schemas

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational stage

Here's a worksheet I've put together which includes some pages from Gross.

Moral Development

Development of moral reasoning.  Here are a mindmaps for

• an overview of moral reasoning,

• Kohlbergs theory,

• Piaget's research

• a downloadable chart to complete as a learning exercise.

Exceptional Development

Deals with Gifted and talented children, autism.  Links here to:

• a gifted boy, 

• giftedness, 

• exceptional development and

• autism