29 Supplemental Resources

Websites

• Areas and Function of the Brain
  • Students will interact with the map and chart to review major areas of the brain and their functions. Toggle down on the top left menu to choose different structures to explore.
• CDC’s Information for Parents of Infants and Toddlers
  • Besides tracking your child’s growth and development, you can learn about topics such as developmental disabilities, immunization recommendations, and screening.
• Infant and Toddler Nutrition
  • This website brings together existing information and practical strategies on feeding healthy foods and drinks to infants and toddlers, from birth to 24 months of age.
• Zero to Three Healthy Sleep
  • The website information on infant sleep patterns and habits. Feel free to explore their multiple topics on the subject.
• Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
  • The Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) is the world’s leading interdisciplinary research center on early learning and brain development. Our groundbreaking research is revolutionizing our understanding of children’s development in their early years, and revealing how this affects brain changes in adolescence, adulthood, and aging.

Videos

• Working with children to understand how brains develop
  • See how developmental psychologists conduct research with young infants. Closed captioning available.
• How Baby Brains Develop
  • CNN takes a look inside what might be the most complex biological system in the world: the human brain.
• Harry Harlow’s Study of Attachment in Monkeys
  • This video shows that infant rhesus monkeys appear to form an affectional bond with soft, cloth surrogate mothers that offered no food but not with wire surrogate mothers that provided a food source but are less pleasant to touch.
• The Strange Situation
  • This video shows the test that American psychologist Mary Ainsworth developed for studying attachment in infants.
• The Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life
  • The attachment theory argues that a strong emotional and physical bond to one primary caregiver in our first years of life is critical to our development. This video explains the different styles of attachment.
• Piaget – Stage 1 – Sensorimotor stage : Object Permanence
  • This video shows the Piaget test of object permanence.
• The Surprising Logical Minds of Babies-TED talk
  • How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well before they can talk.
• What Do Babies Think-Ted Talk
  • “Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species,” says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.
• Learning and Development of Language: The First 5 Years of Life 
  • In this video, we’ll look at four things known about Language Learning in general and then listen to the story of lucky Lucy and poor Pete to understand the importance of language in everyday life.
• Noam Chomsky on Language Acquisition 
  • How is it that we learn to speak and think in language so easily? Philosophers have argued about whether or not we have innate ideas. Whether we are born knowing things, as Plato believed, or rather, as John Locke and other empiricists argued, the mind is a blank slate on which experience writes. Noam Chomsky gave a twist to this debate in the 1960s.
• Schemas, assimilation, and accommodation | Khan Academy 
  • This video summarizes the concepts of assimilation and accommodation that take place during the sensorimotor stage.
• “Good” and “Bad” are Incomplete Stories that we Tell Ourselves-TED talk 
  • Heather Lanier’s daughter Fiona has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a genetic condition that results in developmental delays – but that doesn’t make her tragic, angelic or any of the other stereotypes about kids like her. In this talk about the beautiful, complicated, joyful and hard journey of raising a rare girl, Lanier questions our assumptions about what makes a life “good” or “bad,” challenging us to stop fixating on solutions for whatever we deem not normal, and instead to take life as it comes.