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The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology

Alan Slater (Editor), Darwin Muir (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-20719-1
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March 1999, ©1999, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.

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