Interaction in Human Development

by Bornstein, Marc H.; Bruner, Jerome S.

• ISBN13: 9780805800357
• ISBN10: 0805800352
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-07-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Interaction in Human Development unites theoretical essays and empirical accounts bearing directly on the nature of interactions as a principal factor and organizing feature in human mental and social development. The papers discuss all areas of interaction including genetic, environmental, life-span, interpersonal, and cultural. Ideal as a text for students and as a reference for professionals in personality, developmental, educational, and environmental psychology, psychotherapy, behavioral medicine, and language.

Table of Contents

Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology	p. ii
Series Prologue	p. vii
Contributors to This Volume	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvii
On Interaction	p. 1
Interaction in Cognitive Development	p. 15
Peer Influences on Cognitive Development: Piagetian and Vygotskian Perspectives	p. 17
Cognitive Development and Interaction	p. 41
Conclusions	p. 56
References	p. 57
Social Interaction as Tutoring	p. 59
Interaction in Language Acquisition	p. 81
Understanding Social Interaction and Language Acquisition; Sentences Are Not Enough	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 98
Acknowledgments	p. 99
References	p. 99
The Independence and Task-Specificity of Language	p. 105
Conclusions	p. 131
References	p. 132
Reflections on Language, Development, and the Interactional Character of Talk-In-Interaction	p. 139
Concluding Remarks	p. 151
Acknowledgements	p. 152
Child-Caretaker Interaction	p. 155
Genotype-Environment Interaction	p. 157
The Co-Construction of Representational Activity During Social Interaction	p. 173
Conclusions	p. 192
References	p. 193
Between Caretakers and Their Young: Two Modes of Interaction and Their Consequences for Cognitive Growth	p. 197
Conclusions and Implications	p. 210
Acknowledgments	p. 211
References	p. 211
How to Formulate the Interaction Problem?	p. 215
Developmental Contextualism and the Life-Span View of Person-Context Interaction	p. 217
Conclusions	p. 232
Acknowledgments	p. 233
References	p. 233
Lags and Logs: Statistical Approaches to Interaction	p. 241
Conclusions	p. 258
Acknowledgments	p. 258
The Gene-Culture Connection: Interactions Across Levels of Analysis	p. 261
Acknowledegements	p. 276
References	p. 276
About the Authors	p. 279
Author Index	p. 285
Subject Index	p. 295
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