Table of Contents
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Plates.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: History and Developmental Theory:.
1. Introduction to Developmental Functions: Darwin Muir.
2. A Biographical Sketch of an Infant: Charles Darwin.
3. Baby in a Box: B. F. Skinner.
4. The Stages of the Intellectual Development of a Child: J. Piaget.
5. The Connectionist Infant: Would Piaget Turn in His Grave?: Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
Part II: Continuity-Discontinuity and Nature-Nurture Issues:.
6. Can Measures of Infant Information Processing Predict Later Intellectual Ability?: Alan Slater.
7. Biological Bases of Childhood Shyness: J. Kagan, S. Reznick and N. Snidman.
8. The Genetic Basis of Complex Human Behaviors: R. Plomin, M. Owen and P. McGuffin.
Part III: Perception and Cognition:.
9. Of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer their Mothers' Voices: T. DeCasper and W. Fifer.
10. Listening to Speech in the First Year of Life: J. Werker and R. Desjardins.
11. Pattern and Space Perception in Young Infants: D. Muir, D. Humphrey and G. Humphrey.
12. Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates: A. Meltzoff and M. Moore.
13. Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation: A. Meltzoff and M. Moore.
Part IV: Memory, Learning and Cognition:.
14. Reactivation of Infant Memory: C. K. Rovee-Collier, M. W, Sullivan, Mary Enright, D. Lucas and J. W. Fagan.
15. Rapid Change in the Symbolic Functioning of Very young Children: J. S. DeLoache.
16. Deception in 3-year-olds: M. Lewis, C. Stanger and M. W. Sullivan.
17. How Suggestible are Preschool Children? Cognitive and Social Factors: Stephen J. Ceci and Mary Lyn Crotteau Huffman.
18. Development of Children's Knowledge about the Appearance-Reality Distinction: J. Flavell.
19. Children as Folk Psychologists: The Developing Understanding of the Mind: K. Lee and B. Homer.
20. Development of Intuitive Theories of Motion: Curvilinear Motion in the Absence of External Forces: M. K. Kaiser, M. McCloskey and D. R. Proffitt.
Part V: Language and Communication:.
21. Babbling in the Manual Mode: Evidence for the Ontogeny of Language: L. Pettito and P. F. Marentette.
22. The Role of Discourse Novelty in Early Word Learning: N. Akhtar, M. Carpenter and M. Tomasello.
23. Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals: H. Shwe and E. Markman.
24. Rules of Language: S. Pinker.
25. Children's Understanding of Notions as Domains of Knowledge versus Referential-Communicative Tools: L. Tolchinsky-Landsman and A. Karmiloff-Smith.
26. Categorizing Sounds and Learning to Read - A Causal Connection: L. Bradley and P. E. Bryant.
Part VI: Social and Emotional Development:.
27. Self Development and Self-Conscious Emotions: M. Lewis, M. Sullivan, C. Stanger and M. Weiss.
28. Recent Developments in Attachment Theory and Research: S. Goldberg.
29. American Child Care Today: S. Scarr.
30. Chinese and Canadian Children's Evaluations of Lying and Truth Telling: Similarities and Differences in the Context of Pro- and Anti-social Behaviors.
31. The Relationship Between Parenting Types and Older Adolescents' Personality, Academic Achievement, Adjustment and Substance Use: L. H. Weiss and J. C. Schwartz.
32. Understanding Bullying from a Dynamic Systems Perspective: D. Pepler, W. M. Craig and P. O'Connell.
33. The Company they Keep: Friendships and their Developmental Significance: W. Hartup.
Part VII: Children at Risk:.
34. Helen Keller: An Extraordinary Life: Alan Slater.
35. Children of the Garden Island: E. Werner.
36. Learning and Development in Children With Down's Syndrome: J. Wishart.
37. Cognitive Development and Cognitive Deficit: U. Frith.
38. Head Start: Criticisms in a Constructive Context: E. Zigler and S. Styfco.
39. The Domain of Developmental Psychopathology: L. Sroufe and M. Rutter.
Index.
