Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development

by Editor: J. Gavin Bremner (Lancaster University); Editor: Alan Fogel (University of Utah)

• ISBN13: 9780631212348
• ISBN10: 0631212345
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This up-to-date overview of the fast-moving field of infant development covers all the major areas of interest in terms of research, applications and policy. Provides an up-to-date overview of progress on important developmental questions relating to infancy. Balances North American and European perspective. Written by leading international researchers.Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com

Author Biography

Gavin Bremner is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is the author and editor of many books, including Infancy, Second Edition (Blackwell Publishers, 1994).

Alan Fogel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah and the author of Infancy: Infant, Family and Society (Fourth Edition, 2001) amongst other publications.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	x
Part I Perception and Cognition
Introduction	1	(4)
Visual Perception	5	(30)
Alan Slater
Hearing, Listening, and Understanding: Auditory Development in Infancy	35	(36)
Anne Fernald
Action in Infancy - Perspectives, Concepts, and Challenges: The Development of Reaching and Grasping	71	(28)
Ad W. Smitsman
Cognitive Development: Knowledge of the Physical World	99	(40)
J. Gavin Bremner
Infant Learning and Memory	139	(30)
Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Rachel Barr
Functional Brain Development During Infancy	169	(22)
Mark H. Johnson
Origins of Self concept	191	(22)
Philippe Rochat
Joint Visual Attention in Infancy	213	(28)
George Butterworth
Mind Knowledge in the First Year: Understanding Attention and Intention	241	(28)
Vasudevi Reddy
Part II Social, Emotional, and Communicative Development
Introduction	265	(4)
Mother-Infant Interaction	269	(27)
Marc N. Bornstein
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
First Attachments: Theory and Research	296	(30)
Dymphna van den Boom
Peers and Infant Social/Communicative Development	326	(25)
Carol O. Eckerman
Karen Peterman
The Salience of Touch and Physical Contact During Infancy: Unraveling Some of the Mysteries of the Somesthetic Sense	351	(28)
Date M. Stack
Preverbal Communication	379	(25)
Andrew Lock
Early Language	404	(23)
Luigia Camaioni
Principles of Emotion and its Development in Infancy	427	(38)
David C. Witherington
Joseph J. Campos
Matthew J. Hertenstein
Temperament	465	(40)
Theodore D. Wachs
John E. Bates
Part III Risk Factors in Development
Introduction	503	(2)
Prenatal Development and Risk	505	(38)
William P. Fifer
Catherine E. Monk
Jill Grose-Fifer
Early Intervention and Risk	543	(22)
Douglas R. Powell
Early Social Development in Young Children with Autism: Theoretical and Clinical Implications	565	(24)
Sally Ozonoff
Mikle South
Infant Mental Health in a Changing Society	589	(28)
Donna M. Gelfand
Sensory Deficits	617	(24)
Gunilla Preisler
Part IV Contexts and Policy Issues
Introduction	639	(2)
Infancy Research, Policy, and Practice	641	(19)
Marguerite Barratt
Childcare Research at the Dawn of a New Millennium: Taking Stock of What We Know	660	(33)
Sarah L. Friedman
Suzanne Randolph
Anita Kochanoff
Health, Nutrition, and Safety	693	(33)
Jeanne Thibo Karns
The History (and Future) of Infancy	726	(33)
Alan Fogel
Subject Index	759	(14)
Author Index	773