Annals of Child Development: Volume 11

The purpose of this series is to provide comprehensive reviews of diverse topics in child development for non-specialist professionals. In the opening chapter, Trehub and Schellenberg examine the relevance of music to infants, exploring music created expressively for infants (e.g., lullabies and play songs) and its impact on the child listeners. Patricia Bauer provides a detailed examination of long-term recall in infancy and early childhood, describing how conceptual and methodological developments have advanced our understanding of this important topic. In the third chapter, Brody and Stoneman discuss the major issues guiding research on the quality of sibling relationships in middle childhood. Marie Tisak discusses the research inspired by Turiel's domain model of social development, considering not only its relevance to morality, but also to other social cognitive systems. Steinberg and Cauffman offer a thorough and cogent account of the impact of adolescent schoolyear employment by focusing principally on the negative effects that spending many hours in the labour force on the school performance; vocational development and the psychologica1 adjustment of contemporary American youth. In the final chapter, Louis Gariepy presents a provocative theoretical treatise on the historical evolution of our discipline and offers a new and intriguing systemic model ofdevelopment.