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2 Beginnings
Chapter 2 Heredity and Conception 46
Chapter 3 Prenatal Development 76
Chapter4 Birth and the Newborn Baby: In the New World 110
3 Infancy
Chapter 5 Infancy: Physical Development 148
Chapter 6 Infancy: Cognitive Development 182
Chapter 7 Infancy: Social and Emotional Development 214
4 Early Childhood
Chapter 8 Early Childhood: Physical Development 250
Chapter 9 Early Childhood: Cognitive Development 276
Chapter 10 Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Development 308
5 Middle Childhood
Chapter 11 Middle Childhood: Physical Development 344
Chapter 12 Middle Childhood: Cognitive Development 370
Chapter 13 Middle Childhood: Social and Emotional
Development 414
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Correlation: What Does It Mean to Correlate Information? 35
A CLOSER LOOK: Research Surveying High School Seniors'
Attitudes toward Living Together before Getting Married 36
What Is an Experiment? What Are an Experiment's Advantages Over
Correlation? 3 7
How Do Researchers Study Developments That Take Place
Over the Years? 3 8
Concept Review 1.4: Comparison of Cross-Sectional,
Longitudinal, and Cross-Sequential Research 41
Chapter Review 44
KeyTerms 45
Part 2 Beginnings
Heredity and Conception 46
Truth or Fiction? 47
2.1 The Influence of Heredity on Development:
The Nature of Nature 48
What Are Chromosomes and Genes? 48
What Are Mitosis and Meiosis? 49
What Are Identical and Fraternal Twins? 50
What Are Dominant and Recessive Traits? 50
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A CLOSER LOOK: Diversity Where Are the Missing
Chinese Girls? 67
Prenatal Develop1nent 76
Truth or Fiction? 77
3.1 The Germinal Stage: Wanderings 78
Without Visible Means of Support? 78
3.2 The Embryonic Stage 79
A CLOSER LOOK: Real Life Selecting an Obstetrician 81
Sexual Differentiation: How Do Some Babies Develop into Girls and
Others into Boys? 82
Why Is the Amniotic Sac Called a ''Shock Absorber''? 84
What Are the Functions of the Placenta? 84
3.3 The Fetal Stage 85
A CLOSER LOOK: Research On Fetal Perception Bach at Breakfast
and Beethoven at Brunch? 88
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What Are the Apparent Effects of Maternal Stress on the Child? 104
A CLOSER LOOK: Diversity The Effects of Parents' Age
on Children Do Men Really Have All the Time
in the World? 105
Concept Review 3.2: Risks of Various Agents to the Embryo
and Fetus 106
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What Patterns of Sleep and Waking Are Found Among
Neonates? 140
Why Do Babies Cry? What Can Be Done to Soothe Them? 142
4.7 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) 144
Chapter Review 146
KeyTerms 147
Part 3 Infancy
Infancy: Physical Development 148
Truth or Fiction? 149
5.1 Physical Growth and Development 150
What Are the Sequences of Physical Development? Head First? 150
Concept Review 5.1: Sequences of Physical Development 151
What Patterns of Growth Occur in Infancy? 152
5.2 Nutrition: Fueling Development 155
A CLOSER LOOK: Real Life FoodTimelineforthe FirstTwo Years 157
What Are the Pros and Cons of Breastfeeding vs. Bottle Feeding? 157
A CLOSER LOOK: Diversity Wasting Away from Hunger 159
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Development of Coordination of the Senses: If I See It,
Can I Touch It? 177
Do Children Play an Active or a Passive Role in Perceptual
Development? 177
A CLOSER LOOK: Real Life Effects of Early Exposure to Garlic,
Alcohol, and Gulp Veggies 178
What Is the Evidence for the Roles of Nature and Nurture in
Perceptual Development? 179
Chapter Review 180
Key Terms 181
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A CLOSER LOOK: Diversity Two-Word Sentences Here,
There, and... 204
A CLOSER LOOK: Real Life Infant-Directed Speech Of"Yummy
Yummy" and "Kitty Cats" 206
How Can Adults Enhance Language Development in Children? 207
How Does Psycholinguistic Theory Explain Language
Development? 207
A CLOSER LOOK: Research Brain Structures Involved
in Language 209
What Is the Emergentist Theory of Language Development? 210
Chapter Review 212
KeyTerms 213
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7.5 Personality Development 242
What Is the Self-Concept? How Does It Develop? 242
Temperament: Easy, Difficult, or Slow to Warm Up 242
7.6 Gender Differences 245
What Are the Differences in Behavior Between Infant Girls
and Boys? 246
Do Adults Behave Differently in Their Interactions with Infant
Girls and Boys? 246
Do Parents Treat Their Infant Sons and Daughters Differently? 246
Chapter Review 248
KeyTerms 249
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A CLOSER LOOK: Research Cross-Cultural Differences in
Sleeping Arrangements 270
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How Do Preschool Educational Programs Affect Children's Cognitive
Development? 290
Is Television a Window on the World for Young Children, or a Prison
within a False World? 291
What Are the Effects of Educational Television on Cognitive
Development? 291
A CLOSER LOOK: Real Life Helping Children Use Television
Wisely 293
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Birth Order: Just Where Is the Child in the
Family? 317
How Do Peers Influence Social and Emotional
Development in Early Childhood? 319
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What Are the Gender Similarities and Differences in Physical
Growth During Middle Childhood? 348
How Do Vision and Hearing Develop During Middle
Childhood? 348
11.2 Overweight Children 348
How Many Children in the United States Are Overweight?
Why Are They Overweight? 348
What Are the Causes of Being Overweight? 350
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Middle Childhood: Cognitive
Develop1nent 370
Truth or Fiction? 371
12.1 Jean Piaget: The Concrete-Operational Stage 372
What Is Meant by the Stage of Concrete Operations? 372
Can We Apply Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development to
Educational Practices? 374
Concept Review 12.1: Aspects of Concrete-Operational
Thinking 375
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How Do Children Differ in Their Intellectual Development? 401
A CLOSER LOOK: Diversity Socioeconomic and Ethnic
Differences in IQ 402
What Is Creativity? How Does Creativity Relate to Overall
Intellectual Development? 404
What Is the Relationship Between Creativity and Intelligence? 404
What Are the Roles of Nature (Heredity) and Nurture (Environmental
Influences) In the Development of Intelligence? 405
12.5 Language Development 409
How Do Children's Vocabulary and Grammar Develop in Middle
Childhood? 409
What Cognitive Skills Are Involved in Reading? 409
What Does Research Reveal About the Advantages and Disadvantages
of Bilingualism? 410
Chapter Review 412
KeyTerms 413
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approach as the royal party turns the angle opposite Oldtown. The
king is always seated in a six-oared gig belonging to the ship to
which he is proceeding, whilst the canoes contain his eldest son,
young Eyo, and his three brothers, with an innumerable host of slave
attendants. He has a gigantic parti-coloured parasol held over his
head on these occasions, as he has whenever walking about his
town, or seated in one of his court-yards, overlooking his trade
books. The musical band accompanying the king consists of an
Egbo drum, placed transversely in the canoe, which is not beaten on
the ends as our drums are, but on the top of its longitudinal surface
with a pair of sticks; an instrument formed of iron, as of the saucers
of two shovels welded face to face, and struck with a piece of the
same metal; a cow’s-horn, blown rather discordantly; and clattering-
boxes made of bamboo matting, with a string to them held in the
hands like Spanish castanets, and shaken vigorously to produce a
noise by the agitation of the pebbles or pieces of broken crockery-
ware they contain. Yet, with this primitive attempt at music, the
banners flying from the canoes, the simultaneous hoisting of flags on
all the ships in the river, and the return of a salute from the vessel to
which he is proceeding, when the king’s party becomes visible, gives
the whole scene a very animated appearance.”
By-the-by, mention has several times been made of the curious
institution existing in this part of the world known as the order of
“Egbo.” It is a sort of negro brotherhood of kings, chiefs, and free
men, and the title is derived from “Ekpe,” the Efik name for tiger.
There are eleven grades, the three superior of which are not
purchaseable by slaves. In former times the Egbo title was confined
entirely to freemen, the second or third generation of a slave born
within the pale of an Egboman’s dwelling being liberated by this fact,
and allowed to purchase it after their parents were dead. It cannot be
compared to any institution familiar to European minds but to that of
Freemasonry. Previous to initiation, the Egbo candidate is obliged to
go through a number of ceremonial observances; as, for instance, on
a “Brass Egbo”—one of the superior grades—applicant’s admission
into that order, his body is daubed over with yellow dye to simulate
brass, and there is a sacrifice of animals on the occasion. The
secrets and meetings of Egbo men are strictly private. If a man,
woman, or child have a complaint of grievance against a master or
neighbour, he or she has only to give notification of it by slapping an
Egbo gentleman on the front of his body, or by going into the market
square and tolling the large Egbo bell. The gentleman apprised by
the first-mentioned form of notice, is bound to have at once an Egbo
meeting to redress the grievance complained of, and if this be found
to be trivial the punishment is inflicted on the complainant. When an
Egbo man wants to make a proclamation relative to a theft
committed, or the recovery of a debt, he sends out into the town
what is supposed to be Idem, or spiritual representation of Egbo, a
man with a black vizard on his black face, and the whole of his body
covered cap-a-pie with a fantastical dress of bamboo matting. This
personage is sometimes preceded by a few drummers, and he
always has a bell fastened to his side, which rings as he goes along.
In his left hand he carries a bunch of green leaves (for he is believed
to have been exorcised from the woods, and of course must keep up
his sylvan character); in his right is an enormous cow-hide whip with
which he flogs every slave, man or woman, whom he meets, as taste
or inclination may suggest. A brutal peculiarity of the Egboship is
this, that the want of a single variety of the title will expose him who
is so unfortunate as to lack it, to the lashings of the Idem of that
particular grade which he has not purchased. If an individual who is
in possession of all the inferior grades, and of three of the superior
ones, happens to be out on the day when the Idem of that particular
Egbo that he was in want of is walking, he is marked out from the
common multitude and treated with extra severity. Should the Idem
not meet any slave in the streets to whip on his rounds, he is at
liberty to go into their houses and whip them to his heart’s content.
The sound of Egbo bells, and the name of Egbo day, are enough to
terrify all the slave population of Duketown, and when they hear it
they hide in every available place. Latterly females have been
permitted to buy Egbo privileges, but are not allowed to be present at
the councils of the Egbo gentlemen, nor to enter at any time within
the wall of the Egbo Palaver-house. When a yellow flag floats from
the king’s house it is understood to be Brass Egbo day, and none but
a few of the privileged are allowed to walk abroad. A strip of cloth of
the same colour nailed to any man’s door implies that his house is
under the powerful protection of Brass Egbo, the indication being
significant of the master’s absence from home. If an Idem meets a
European in his progress, where there are two roads or pathways
available, the Idem walks off on the one different from that which the
white man is approaching; if there be but one road, the latter is
expected to turn his back and let the supposed spirit pass unnoticed
and undisturbed. “Aqua Osong,” the last day of the Kalabar week, is
grand Egbo day, on which there is a carnival and Egbo procession,
with the usual amount of brutality. All legal and judicial proceedings
in the country are ushered in and carried out under Egbo
demonstrations, for the purpose evidently of keeping the law in
terrorem over the slave population. And no stronger evidence of this
can be adduced than that a man tried and condemned by Egbo law
has to forfeit all his slaves and other property in his possession, no
matter to whom this latter may belong. These are all divided as prey
amongst the highest Egbo authorities. Persons sentenced to death
by Egbo trial are allowed what is considered a privilege of leaving
this world in a state of intoxication. There is a class of people called
Bloodmen, who live in the interior at the plantations, and whose
presence in Duketown does not give much comfort to the Egbo
authorities. Sometime after the death of King Eyamba in 1846, a
number of slaves belonging to the duke’s family ran away from their
owners, and entered into a blood covenant for mutual protection. In a
short time others joined them, and they now amount to several
thousands. The present King of Duketown, Duke Ephraim, is the
lineal descendant of the master of the original refugees, and
consequently has considerable influence over them. Some time back
they tried to be allowed the establishment of a separate Egboship for
themselves, but were refused. They come into town whenever any
ceremonial is to be performed having reference to a deed of blood;
but what their relation is to the Egbo order still remains a profound
secret. The gentlemen at Old Kalabar have all private fetishes at
their houses—the skulls of human beings, the bones of leopards,
hippopotami, crocodiles, and manattis, arranged according to the
owner’s taste and fancy. Peculiar species of food are not eaten by
many families, from the fact that some members of them die after
eating of such condiments, and their ju-ju consequently places an
interdict on their use.
At Lunda, another settlement in Western Africa, the individual at
the head of the State is called the “Mambo.” This gorgeous
personage, together with his chief ministers, is thus described by the
traveller Valdez, to whom audience was given:
“The Mambo sat on a number of tiger-skins, so arranged that all
the tails radiated, thus forming the figure of a large star, and in the
centre was spread an enormous lion-skin, which covered a portion of
all the others. A stool, covered with green cloth and placed on the
lion-skin, formed the throne of the Mambo. This dignitary was
dressed in a most magnificent style, far surpassing in grandeur of
display all the other potentates of the interior of Africa. His head was
adorned with a mitre, about two spans high, in shape resembling a
pyramid, and formed of feathers of a bright scarlet colour. His
forehead was encircled by a diadem ornamented with a great variety
of valuable jewels of great brilliancy; a sort of frill or fan of green
cloth, supported by two small ivory arrows, was standing up from the
back of his head; the neck and shoulders being covered with a kind
of spencer or capuchin without sleeves. The upper part of this cape
was ornamented with the bottom of cowrie shells, under which was a
row of imitation jewels. The lower part had a most brilliant and
dazzling effect, in consequence of a great number of small mirrors,
or square and round pieces of looking-glass, being tastefully
arranged alternately with the precious stones all round it. His
shoulders, breast, and back, were thus covered with a garment at
which no one in that resplendent sunshine could for one moment
look fixedly.
“The arms above the elbows were ornamented with a band of
cloth of about four inches broad, the borders and edges of which had
attached to them strips of skin, with hair of about four or five inches
long hanging down like a fringe. None but the Muata Cazembe, or
prime minister, and his nearest relatives are allowed to wear this
badge of royalty. From his elbows to the wrist the arms were
ornamented with sky-blue stones, while the yellow cloth, something
similar to the Highlandman’s kilt, extended from the waist to the
knees. This garment had two borders of about four inches wide, the
upper one blue, and the lower red.
“He also had a kind of girdle or swathe of several yards long,
which was worn in a rather peculiar manner; one end of it being
fastened to the other cloth by a small ivory arrow a little below the
waist, and the whole then wound round the body in small regular
folds. A leather belt which is girt round the body preserves this
garment in its place. Both are considered as the insignia of imperial
authority.
“The insipo or girdle of hide is cut from the entire length of an ox’s
skin, and is about five or six inches in breadth. When the insipo is
girded on, the tassel of the tail is left trailing under a sort of fan,
formed by the folds or plaits as before mentioned. The Muata
Cazembe had hung from his insipo under his right hand a string of
pearls, to the end of which a small bell was attached, which,
knocking against his legs as he moved, rang at intervals. He had
also pearls strung round his legs from his knees downwards, similar
to those he wore on his arms. While the whole of his body was thus
richly ornamented, his face, hands, and feet were left entirely
uncovered.
“The Muata Cazembe had seven umbrellas, forming a canopy to
shelter him from the sun. These varied in colour, and were fastened
to the ground with long bamboos, covered with stuff of different hues
manufactured by the natives. Twelve negroes simply clad, and each
of them holding in his hand a nhumbo’s tail, were stationed round the
umbrellas.
“The nhumbo is an antelope about the size of a three-year old ox,
and of a chestnut colour, having a black cross along the back, and a
great deal of hair about the shoulder-blades—about the same
quantity as a horse has upon his mane and tail. It has cloven feet,
head and horns like a buffalo, and the flesh is excellent food. The
nhumbo tails held by the negroes were in the form of a broom, and
the part which served as a handle was adorned with beads of
various colours. All the tails were put in motion at the same time
whenever the Muata Cazembe thought proper to make a sign with a
small one of the same kind, which he used himself.
“At a short distance from him were negroes gravely employed in
looking for and sweeping away whatever was unpleasant or
offensive to the sight. After them came two other negroes, with
baskets on their shoulders, to pick up anything which might be
overlooked; but the place was so clear that not one of them could
find anything to do, although, according to custom, the appearance
of being busy was kept up. Two curved lines issued from the
extremities of the Muata’s chair, and met at the distance of twenty
paces in front, opposite the Mambo. The line on the left was marked
by the point of a stick which was trailed along the ground; that on his
right by chalk. In front of these curved lines, forming an avenue of
about three spans in width, were two files of figures resembling idols,
beginning from the sides of the curved lines. The size of these
figures, which were only half-lengths, was about twenty inches; they
were nailed to sticks thrust in the ground, were very rudely made,
had Kaffir features, and were ornamented with the horns of beasts.
In the centre of the avenue was a cage in the form of a barrel,
containing another smaller figure.
“Two negroes sat on the ground near the two outermost figures
fronting the king, each having an earthen vessel full of live ashes
before him, and were employed in throwing on the fire a quantity of
leaves, which produced a dense aromatic smoke. The backs of the
images being placed towards the Muata Cazembe, from under the
last—the one nearest the earthen vessels—a rope was extended to
the Mambo’s feet; for what purpose I could not by any means
ascertain.
“The two wives of the Mambo were the only ones present in the
Chipango, the gate of which was open. One of these ladies was
sitting on a stool, covered with a green cloth; her arms, neck, and
bosom ornamented with stones of different colours, and her head
adorned with scarlet feathers, like the head-dress of the Mambo, but
shorter and smaller.
“The second wife sat on a lion’s skin at the left-hand side of the
gate, with no other dress than a cloth, which was entirely without
ornaments. Behind the two wives stood more than four hundred
women of different ages, all dressed in nhandas, a kind of
interwoven cloth made of the bark of trees.”
In another part of this strange country the ruler is known by the
euphonious title of “Jaga;” and whenever a vacancy occurs in the
government by the death of the Jaga, the Tendalla or prime-minister
convokes the heads of the electoral college, which comprises the
Macotas or counsellors, the Cazas or noblemen, and the Catondo or
commander-in-chief, who together with himself (the Tendella),
compose the cabinet council. When this body is assembled they
proceed to investigate the claims of the various individuals
connected with the families who are considered as legitimate
aspirants to the regal dignity.
Having first decided as to the family, their next inquiry has
reference to the individual best qualified to bear the royal dignity; but
it is seldom that matters proceed so far, for it is generally understood
beforehand by the members of the electoral college who is the
legitimate and popular claimant.
These important questions once settled, they next proceed to
build a suitable house for a new Jaga, and to lay out the garden,
etc., and also to erect houses for themselves around it. After these
preliminary proceedings, they next direct their steps to the residence
of the man of their choice, and unceremoniously entering, bring him
out as if he were a malefactor and present him to the multitude, who,
amidst the clang of marimbas and beating of drums, raise a
simultaneous shout on his appearance. He is then conveyed on the
shoulders of his sons, or of the people, to the Quilombo or fortified
residence provided for him, where he remains for several days, none
being allowed to visit him, with the exception of two relations and the
Tendella. At the end of two months he removes to a house
previously prepared on the borders of the River Undua, where he
remains for twenty or thirty days. Here he may be said to form his
new ministry—deposing some officers and appointing others. On this
occasion he also selects his principal wife. When all these
arrangements are finished, the Jaga returns to the locality where he
intends to reside, and fixes the exact spot as follows:—Having
formed his Quilombo, he takes his bow and discharges an arrow,
and wherever it falls there he must erect his permanent residence,
called Semba. Around it are built the houses of his wives, who in
general amount to fifty in number. Next to these are located the
senzales of the Macotas and their wives of the followers of the
former Jaga, and lastly of those who were with the elected Jaga at
the Senzald, where formerly he acted as Maquita.
The last of these ceremonies is that called the Sambamento, after
which the Jaga is considered qualified to exercise all the functions of
his office.
The particular period at which this most cruel and barbarous
custom originated is not known. Some of the Jagas have been
known to dispense with it altogether.
When it is decided to celebrate the Sambamento, some of the
Sovas or Maquitas are dispatched to find the Nicango or victim. The
person selected is uniformly a black, who must have no relationship
or connection with the Jaga or any of the Maquitas or Macotas.
When the Nicango arrives, he is received at the Quilombo and
treated in the same manner as the Jaga; he is provided with
everything he requires, and all his orders are obeyed with the same
promptitude.
The day on which the Sambamento is to be celebrated being
appointed, the Maquitas are informed of the fact, and as large a
number of the people as can be accommodated at the Quilombo
being invited, they all assemble in front of the residence of the Jaga.
The Maquitas and the Macotas form themselves into a circle, the
rest of the people assembling around. The Jaga then takes his seat
in the centre of the circle, on an iron stool, in a circular concave form
with a hole through the centre of the top. The Bansacuco is seated
beside the Jaga, together with all the concubines. The Cassange-
Cagongue then strikes the gong, which is of iron in the form of an
arch, with two small bells attached, and with a bar across it. The
Cassange-Cagongue continues to ring the bells during the
ceremony.
The Nicango is then introduced and placed in front of the Jaga,
but with his back towards him. The Jaga being provided with a
cutlass of a semi-circular form, commences operations by cutting
open the back of the Nicango until he reaches the heart, which he
extracts, and having taken a bit of it he spits it out and gives it to be
burned.
The Macotas in the meantime hold the corpse of the Nicango in
such a manner that the blood from the wound in the back is
discharged against the breast and belly of the Jaga, and falling
through the hole in the iron stool is collected by the Maquitas in their
hands; they then rub their breast and beard with it, at the same time
making a great clamour vociferating “Great is the Jaga and the rites
of the State.”
The corpse of the Nicango is next carried to some distance,
where it is first skinned and then divided into small pieces and
cooked with the flesh of an ox, a dog, a hen, and some other
animals. The meal being prepared it is first served to the Jaga, next
to the Maquitas and Macotas, and then to all the people assembled,
and woe to the unhappy wight who has the temerity to refuse
partaking of the repast from any repugnance to the ingredient, as in
such case the law made and provided is that he and his family forfeit
their liberty and are therefore at once sold into captivity.
Singing and dancing conclude the Sambamento.
CHAPTER XVIII.