Originally published in 1979, this volume represented a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of older children. In each chapter, eminent research workers attempt to cross the theoretical, empirical, and methodological barriers that had traditionally separated the study of preverbal infants from the study of verbal children and adults at the time. These completely new and original contributions traced the developmental links between birth and conversation within three major categories: perceptual, cognitive, and language development. Although the chapters range from reports of well-defined research areas to theoretical propositions, the aim throughout was to relate the events of the first year of life to the child’s later perceptual and cognitive activity. This book will still be of interest for all concerned with child development and related areas, in that it demonstrates the remarkable range of observations about infants brought under a single guiding set of questions about continuity, stability, and the sources of change during and after the first year of life.
Series Prologue. Preface.
1. Introduction William Kessen Part 1:
Perceptual and Motor Development
2. Perspectives on Infant Motor System
Development Claire B. Kopp
3. Perceptual Development: Stability and Change in
Feature Perception Marc H. Bornstein
4. The Origins of Facial Pattern
Recognition Joseph F. Fagan, III
5. Spatial Reference Systems in Perceptual
Development Herbert L. Pick, Jr., Albert Yonas and John Rieser
6. Commentary
Eleanor J. Gibson et al. Part 2: Cognitive Development
7. Structure and
Process in the Human Infant: The Ontogeny of Mental Representation Jerome
Kagan
8. Qualitative Transitions in Behavioral Development in the First Two
Years of Life Robert B. McCall
9. The Figurative and the Operative in
Piagetian Psychology David Elkind
10. From Adaptive Responses to Social
Cognition: The Learning View of Development Hanu Papouek
11. Commentary
Paul Mussen Part 3: Language and Social Development
12. Acquiring the
Concept of the Dialogue H. Rudolph Schaffer
13. The Role of Language in
Infant Development Katherine Nelson
14. Dialectical Approaches to Early
Thought and Language Arnold J. Sameroff and Adrienne E. Harris
15.
Commentary: A Trialogue on Dialogue Jean M. Mandler. Biographical Notes.
Author Index. Subject Index.
Marc H. Bornstein, William Kessen
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