Infant Development The Essential Readings

by Muir, Darwin; Slater, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780631217473
• ISBN10: 0631217479
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Infant Development: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this core area of developmental psychology and introduces the reader to the field of infancy research and to some of the current, lively controversies within this area.

Author Biography

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

Alan Slater is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter.
They are co-editors of the recently published Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction Infancy Research: History and Methods	xv
Darwin Muir
Alan Slater
Part I Theoretical Issues	1	(66)
Introduction	2	(1)
Why Do Infants Do What They Do? Introduction	3	(2)
Shifting the Focus From What to Why	5	(31)
C. Rovee-Collier
The Origins of Knowledge: Nature versus Nurture Introduction	35	(1)
Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge	36	(19)
E. S. Spelke
Connectionist Modeling Introduction	53	(2)
Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development	55	(12)
D. Mareschal
Part II Sensation and Perception	67	(96)
Introduction	68	(1)
Fetal Sensitivity to Touch Introduction	69	(3)
Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic Stimulation	72	(23)
B. S. Kisilevsky
D. W. Muir
J. A. Low
Early Visual Perception Introduction	93	(2)
Visual Perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and Rapid Learning	95	(24)
A. Slater
Intermodal Perception Introduction	117	(2)
Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal Perception	119	(20)
L. Bahrick
Social Perception Introduction	137	(2)
Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small Deviations in Eye-Gaze During Social Interactions	139	(10)
L. A. Symons
S. M. Hains
D. W. Muir
Speech Perception Introduction	147	(2)
Becoming a Native Listener	149	(14)
J. F. Werker
Part III Cognitive Development	163	(92)
Introduction	164	(1)
Newborn Imitation Introduction	165	(2)
Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates	167	(9)
A. N. Meltzoff
M. K. Moore
Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation	176	(9)
A. N. Meltzoff
M. K. Moore
Infant Counting Introduction	183	(2)
Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants	185	(10)
K. Wynn
Learning About the Physical World Introduction	193	(2)
How Do Infants Learn About the Physical World?	195	(21)
R. Baillargeon
The A-not-B Error Introduction	213	(3)
Why Do Infants Make A Not B Errors in a Search Task, Yet Show Memory for the Location of Hidden Objects in a Nonsearch Task?	216	(23)
A. Ahmed
T. Ruffman
Predicting Later Intelligence Introduction	237	(2)
Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent Intelligence?	239	(16)
M. Sigman
S. E. Cohen
L. Beckwith
Part IV Social Development and Communication	255	(110)
Introduction	256	(3)
Infant-Directed Speech Introduction	259	(2)
Infant Responses to Prototypical Melodic Contours in Parental Speech	261	(9)
M. Papousek
M. H. Bornstein
C. Nuzzo
H. Papousek
D. Symmes
Early Word Comprehension Introduction	269	(1)
Some Beginnings of Word Comprehension in 6-Month-Olds	270	(12)
R. Tincoff
P. W. Jusczyk
Social Referencing Introduction	279	(3)
Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff Behavior of 1-Year-Olds	282	(13)
J. F. Sorce
R. N. Emde
J. Campos
M. D. Klinnert
Infant Understanding of Others' Intentions and Theory of Mind Introduction	293	(2)
Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants Differentially Imitate Intentional and Accidental Actions	295	(27)
M. Carpenter
N. Akhtar
M. Tomasello
Social Attachments Introduction	319	(3)
Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three Generations	322	(21)
D. Benoit
K. Parker
Infants with Autism Introduction	341	(2)
An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications	343	(22)
T. Charman
J. Swettenham
S. Baron-Cohen
A. Cox
G. Baird
A. Drew
Index	365