Infant Development
The Essential Readings
Essential Readings in Developmental Psychology
1. Edition February 2000
404 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21747-3
John Wiley & Sons
Infant Development: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this core area of developmental psychology and introduces the reader to the field of infancy research and to some of the current, lively controversies within this area.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Infancy Research: History and Methods.
Part I: Theoretical Issues.
1. Shifting the Focus From What to Why.
2. Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge.
3. Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development.
Part II: Sensation and Perception.
4. Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic
Stimulation.
5. Visual perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and
Rapid Learninng.
6. Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal
Perception.
7. Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small
Deviations in Eye-Gaze.
8. Becoming a Native Listener.
Part III: Cognitive Development.
9a. Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human
Neonates.
9b. Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation.
10. Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants.
11. How Do Infants learn About the Physical World?.
12. Why Do Infants Make A-not-B Errors in a Search Task, Yet
Show Memory for the.
13. Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent
Intelligence?.
Part IV: Social Development and Communication.
14. Infant Responses to Prototypical melodic Contours in
Parental Speech.
15. Early Word Comprehension in 6-Moth-Olds.
16. Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff
Behavior of 1-Year-Olds.
17. Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants.
18. Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three
Generations.
19. An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities
in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications.
Index.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Infancy Research: History and Methods.
Part I: Theoretical Issues.
1. Shifting the Focus From What to Why.
2. Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge.
3. Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development.
Part II: Sensation and Perception.
4. Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic
Stimulation.
5. Visual perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and
Rapid Learninng.
6. Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal
Perception.
7. Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small
Deviations in Eye-Gaze.
8. Becoming a Native Listener.
Part III: Cognitive Development.
9a. Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human
Neonates.
9b. Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation.
10. Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants.
11. How Do Infants learn About the Physical World?.
12. Why Do Infants Make A-not-B Errors in a Search Task, Yet
Show Memory for the.
13. Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent
Intelligence?.
Part IV: Social Development and Communication.
14. Infant Responses to Prototypical melodic Contours in
Parental Speech.
15. Early Word Comprehension in 6-Moth-Olds.
16. Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff
Behavior of 1-Year-Olds.
17. Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants.
18. Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three
Generations.
19. An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities
in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications.
Index.
"What stands out is the excellent and up-to-date selection of
essays in the volume on infant development which offered a very
good balance between theory and empirical research." Infancia y
Aprendizaje, vol 24(1), 2001.
"If you have the time, read it. If you do not have the time,
find it somehow". Ruth Coppard, Educational Psychology in
Practice, Vol 18, 2002
"Infant Development: The Essential Readings is accessible
to the reader, illustrates the current work and controversies in
the field, and shows diversity of research topics, according to the
general definition of the parameters of the field. It is an
informative source of information for anyone interested in learning
about current research in infant developmental psychology. The
editors have succeeded in the important task of providing an update
on the research that has occurred in the past decade. Very few
books with comparable information have been published since the
1980s. Although there are many volumes that focus on a narrower
aspect of recent infant developmental research and many more than
explain theories and applications of research to parents, this book
discusses the theories and provides comprehensive and contextual
information on a wider range of research in the field." Sarah
Duman, University of Southern California, APA Review of Books,
December 2003
essays in the volume on infant development which offered a very
good balance between theory and empirical research." Infancia y
Aprendizaje, vol 24(1), 2001.
"If you have the time, read it. If you do not have the time,
find it somehow". Ruth Coppard, Educational Psychology in
Practice, Vol 18, 2002
"Infant Development: The Essential Readings is accessible
to the reader, illustrates the current work and controversies in
the field, and shows diversity of research topics, according to the
general definition of the parameters of the field. It is an
informative source of information for anyone interested in learning
about current research in infant developmental psychology. The
editors have succeeded in the important task of providing an update
on the research that has occurred in the past decade. Very few
books with comparable information have been published since the
1980s. Although there are many volumes that focus on a narrower
aspect of recent infant developmental research and many more than
explain theories and applications of research to parents, this book
discusses the theories and provides comprehensive and contextual
information on a wider range of research in the field." Sarah
Duman, University of Southern California, APA Review of Books,
December 2003
Darwin Muir is Professor of Psychology at Queen's
University, Ontario.
Alan Slater is Senior Lecturer in the School of
Psychology at the University of Exeter.
They are co-editors of the recently published Blackwell Reader
in Developmental Psychology.
University, Ontario.
Alan Slater is Senior Lecturer in the School of
Psychology at the University of Exeter.
They are co-editors of the recently published Blackwell Reader
in Developmental Psychology.
