Chapter 8

Cognitive Development
Web-links
Infants' speech perception
See several short videos demonstrating three methods used to study infants' speech perception.
http://cnx.org/content/m11175/latest/#infant_list
Cocktail party phenomenon
This article in the newspaper of Johns Hopkins University discusses research that shows infants as young
as seven and a half months are able to experience the cocktail party phenomenon.
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/octdec96/nov1896/infant.html
Early childhood education
This resource designed for parents and teachers consists of numerous articles pertaining to early childhood
education.
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/page2.aspx
Tip-of-the-tongue states
This American Scientist article by Dr. Lise Abrams, associate professor of psychology at the University of
Florida, tells us what tip-of-the-tongue states tell us about the processes underlying language production
and how these processes change as we age.
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3626,y.2008,no.3,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx
Innotation Patterns in child-directed speech: Mother-father differences
Students can read this to determine the difference in tone and pitch in which both sexes as parents speak to
child ages range from 2 to 5 year old.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1130007
Dictionary of Body Language and Signs
Students can stroll through the picture dictionary and will probably be amazed by how many hand gestures
they don’t realize we all know.
http://www.gesture.com/

Chapter 9
Cognitive Development
Web-links
Schemas and Memory
This is very informative and has a lot of information pertaining to schemas and memory. It talks about
different approaches to learning, describes the information processing model, and useful information
relating to cognitive skills. This site also has brain training games
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/memory.html.
Gender Stereotypes
Negative stereotypes jeopardize learning, not just test performance (Please copy and paste this URL to your
search engine in order to bring up the site.)
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/choke/201008/when-negative-gender-stereotypes-hang-
heavy-in-the-classroom-girls-learn-less
Gender Stereotypes
Math performance
http://hpl.uchicago.edu/Home/Home.html
http://hpl.uchicago.edu/Projects/Projects_3.html
Schema Therapy
This site describes what a schema is and how it is used for various disorders, such as borderline personality
disorder, and it actually has several slide shows outlining the treatment involved.
http://www.schematherapy.com/id30.htm
Braingle: 'Semantic Memory' Mentalrobics Article
The domain of semantic memory consists of stored information about the features and ... hemisphere, that
play a critical role in semantic memory
 www.braingle.com/mind/417/semantic-memory.html

Automatic activation of stereotypes

This site gives a number of Implicit Association Tests to illustrate automatic activation of stereotypes, such
as age, gender, and race.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html
Schemas and Memory
This is very informative and has a lot of information pertaining to schemas and memory. It talks about different
approaches to learning, describes the information processing model, and useful information relating to cognitive
skills. This site also has brain training games
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/memory.html.
Gender Stereotypes
Negative stereotypes jeopardize learning, not just test performance
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/choke/201008/when-negative-gender-stereotypes-hang-
heavy-in-the-classroom-girls-learn-less
Gender Stereotypes
Math performance
http://hpl.uchicago.edu/Home/Home.html
http://hpl.uchicago.edu/Projects/Projects_3.html
Schema Therapy
This site describes what a schema is and how it is used for various disorders, such as borderline personality
disorder, and it actually has several slide shows outlining the treatment involved.
http://www.schematherapy.com/id30.htm