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We hope this chapter has made you eager to learn more about child development. Now that you have been introduced to some of the basic concepts in the field of child development, you are ready to explore these concepts more deeply. There are so many interesting and important topics in the pages that follow that it is difficult to pick just a few to highlight, but they include understanding what can be done to help ensure a healthy pregnancy for both mother and infant, developing educational practices that help children across a wide range of abilities to thrive in their classrooms, and learning about the exciting new findings from neuroscience that are helping us understand how the brain works. We look at what promotes healthy development, what threatens it, and the protective factors that can buffer those negative effects. We also discuss how all this unfolds in the increasingly diverse world in which children live.

Chapter Summary

The chapter summary at the end of each chapter is designed in a question/answer format so that you can use it to test yourself on what you have learned. While looking at each question, cover the answer and try to answer it yourself. Then see how the answer corresponds to your own understanding. Self-testing is a very effective way to study and learn.