The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology

by Slater, Alan; Muir, Darwin

• ISBN13: 9780631207191
• ISBN10: 0631207198
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Developmental psychology is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of scientific enquiry to be found. This collection of readings provides the reader with an introduction to the area by giving immediate access to a broad ranging selection of papers written by one or more leading international expert. The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology contains articles that have been selected to reflect the wide variety of topics investigated by developmental scientists, the dynamic changing nature of the subject, and the current state of the art. All of the articles, many of which have been specially commissioned for this book, are accessible to students at all levels of their studies in developmental psychology. The Reader can thus be used either in conjunction with, or as a replacement for, a textbook that offers an introduction to this dynamic area of study.

Author Biography

Alan Slater is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Exeter.

Darwin Muir is Professor of Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix	(4)
List of Tables	xiii	(2)
List of Plates	xv	(1)
Preface	xvi	(2)
Acknowledgements	xviii
PART I METHODS, HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY	1	(52)
1 Theories and Methods in Developmental Psychology	3	(14)
DARWIN MUIR
2 A Biographical Sketch of an Infant	17	(10)
CHARLES DARWIN
3 Baby in a Box	27	(8)
B. F. SKINNER
4 The Stages of the Intellectual Development of the Child	35	(8)
JEAN PIAGET
5 The Connectionist Infant: Would Piaget Turn in his Grave?	43	(10)
ANNETTE KARMILOFF-SMITH
PART II BASIC ISSUES: CONTINUITY, DISCONTINUITY, NATURE AND NURTURE	53	(44)
6 Can Measures of Infant Information Processing Predict Later Intellectual Ability?	55	(10)
ALAN SLATER
RACHAEL CARRICK
CLARE BELL
ELIZABETH ROBERTS
7 Biological Bases of Childhood Shyness	65	(14)
JEROME KAGAN
J. STEVEN REZNICK
NANCY SNIDMAN
8 The Genetic Basis of Complex Human Behaviors	79	(18)
ROBERT PLOMIN
MICHAEL J. OWEN
PETER MCGUFFIN
PART III PERCEPTION AND COGNITION IN INFANCY	97	(70)
9 Of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer their Mothers' Voices	99	(7)
ANTHONY J. DECASPER
WILLIAM P. FIFER
10 Listening to Speech in the First Year of Life: Experiential Influences on Phoneme Perception	106	(10)
JANET F. WERKER
RENEE N. DESJARDINS
11 Pattern and Space Perception in Young Infants	116	(27)
DARWIN W. MUIR
DIANE E. HUMPHREY
G. KEITH HUMPHREY
12 Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates	143	(8)
ANDREW N. MELTZOFF
M. KEITH MOORE
12a Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation	151	(5)
ANDREW N. MELTZOFF
M. KEITH MOORE
13 Infants Possess a System of Numerical Knowledge	156	(11)
KAREN WYNN
PART IV MEMORY, LEARNING AND COGNITION	167	(98)
14 Reactivation of Infant Memory	169	(8)
CAROLYN K. ROVEE-COLLIER
MARGARET W. SULLIVAN
MARY ENRIGHT
DEBORA LUCAS
JEFFREY W. FAGEN
15 Rapid Change in the Symbolic Functioning of Very Young Children	177	(6)
JUDY S. DELOACHE
16 Deception in 3-Year-Olds	183	(11)
MICHAEL LEWIS
CATHERINE STANGER
MARGARET W. SULLIVAN
17 How Suggestible are Preschool Children? Cognitive and Social Factors	194	(18)
STEPHEN J. CECI
MARY LYN CROTTEAU HUFFMAN
18 The Development of Children's Knowledge about the Appearance-Reality Distinction	212	(16)
JOHN H. FLAVELL
19 Children as Folk Psychologists: The Developing Understanding of the Mind	228	(25)
KANG LEE
BRUCE HOMER
20 Development of Intuitive Theories of Motion: Curvilinear Motion in the Absence of External Forces	253	(12)
MARY KISTER KAISER
MICHAEL MCCLOSKEY
DENNIS R. PROFFITT
PART V LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION	265	(76)
21 Babbling in the Manual Mode: Evidence for the Ontogeny of Language	267	(9)
LAURA ANN PETITTO
PAULA F. MARENTETTE
22 The Role of Discourse Novelty in Early Word Learning	276	(17)
NAMEERA AKHTAR
MALINDA CARPENTER
MICHAEL TOMASELLO
23 Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of their Communicative Signals	293	(16)
HELEN I. SHWE
ELLEN M. MARKMAN
24 Rules of Language	309	(13)
STEVEN PINKER
25 Children's Understanding of Notations as Domains of Knowledge versus Referential-Communicative Tools	322	(13)
LILIANA TOLCHINSKY LANDSMANN
ANNETTE KARMILOFF-SMITH
26 Categorizing Sounds and Learning to Read -- A Causal Connection	335	(6)
L. BRADLEY
P. E. BRYANT
PART VI EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT	341	(132)
27 Self Development and Self-Conscious Emotions	343	(17)
MICHAEL LEWIS
MARGARET WOLAN SULLIVAN
CATHERINE STANGER
MAYA WEISS
28 Recent Developments in Attachment Theory and Research	360	(15)
SUSAN GOLDBERG
29 American Child Care Today	375	(27)
SANDRA SCARR
30 Chinese and Canadian Children's Evaluations of Lying and Truth Telling: Similarities and Differences in the Context of Pro- and Antisocial Behaviors	402	(18)
KANG LEE
CATHERINE ANN CAMERON
FEN XU
GENYAO FU
JULIE BOARD
31 The Relationship between Parenting Types and Older Adolescents' Personality, Academic Achievement, Adjustment and Substance Use	420	(20)
LAURA H. WEISS
J. CONRAD SCHWARZ
32 Understanding Bullying from a Dynamic Systems Perspective	440	(12)
DEBRA PEPLER
WENDY M. CRAIG
PAUL O'CONNELL
33 The Company They Keep: Friendships and their Developmental Significance	452	(21)
WILLARD W. HARTUP
PART VII CHILDREN AT RISK	473	(82)
34 Helen Keller: An Extraordinary Life	475	(7)
ALAN SLATER
35 Children of the Garden Island	482	(11)
EMMY E. WERNER
36 Learning and Development in Children with Down's Syndrome	493	(16)
JENNIFER G. WISHART
37 Cognitive Development and Cognitive Deficit	509	(14)
UTA FRITH
38 Head Start: Criticisms in a Constructive Context	523	(12)
EDWARD ZIGLER
SALLY J. STYFCO
39 The Domain of Developmental Psychopathology	535	(20)
L. ALAN SROUFE
MICHAEL RUTTER
Index	555