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Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 31 discusses chidren's understanding of photographs as spatial and expressive representations, school relationships and their influence on behavior, literacy and the role of letter names, emotion, morality, and self, working memory in infancy, differentiated sense of the past and the future, cognitive flexibility and language abilities, understanding children with medical and physical disorders, bio-ecological environment and development, and early literacy.

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ADVANCES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR Volume 31 Contributors to This Volume David A. Beaulieu Megan M. McClelland Daphne Blunt Bugental Frederick J. Morrison Gedeon O. Dea´k Lenna L. Ontai William J. Friedman Kevin A. Pelphrey Maureen Kessenich J. Steven Reznick Brett Kessler Ross A. Thompson Gary W. Ladd Rebecca Treiman Deborah J. Laible Theodore D. Wachs Lynn S. Liben ADVANCES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR edited by Robert V. Kail Department of Psychological Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 USA Volume 31 Amsterdam Boston Heidelberg London New York Oxford Paris San Diego San Francisco Singapore Sydney Tokyo This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright ß 2003, Elsevier Science (USA). All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. The appearance of the code at the bottom of the first page of a chapter in this book indicates the Publisher’s consent that copies of the chapter may be made for personal or internal use of specific clients. This consent is given on the condition, however, that the copier pay the stated per copy fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, Massachusetts 01923), for copying beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying, such as copying for general distribution, for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, or for resale. Copy fees for pre-2003 chapters are as shown on the title pages. If no fee code appears on the title page, the copy fee is the same as for current chapters. 0065-2407/2003 $35.00 Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: [email protected] You may also complete your request on-line via the Elsevier Science homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting ‘‘Customer Support’’ and then ‘‘Obtaining Permissions.’’ Academic Press An Elsevier Science Imprint. 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA http://www.academicpress.com Academic Press 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK http://www.academicpress.com International Standard Book Number: 0-12-009731-1 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 03 04 05 06 07 08 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Contributors .............................................................................................