The mental development of the child: A summary of modern psychological theory

by Buhler, Karl

• ISBN13: 9780415209861
• ISBN10: 0415209862
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-31
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in theInternational Library of Psychologyseries is available upon request.

Table of Contents

General Considerations
Instinct, Training, and Intellect. (A Chapter from Comparative Psychology)	1	(18)
What is instinct?	3	(2)
Training	5	(5)
Intellect	10	(6)
History and appreciation of the theory of levels	16	(3)
References	19	(1)
On The Inheritance of Intellectual Qualities
The Mendelian laws	19	(3)
Investigations on Man	22	(4)
Practical application	26	(1)
References	26	(1)
Aims and Methods of child Psychology
History	27	(1)
Aims	28	(2)
Methods	30	(2)
The limits of child psychology and the phases of childhood	32	(2)
References	34	(2)
The Physical development of the child
The total growth of the body	36	(2)
Changes in the bodily proportions	38	(1)
The development of the brain	39	(4)
References	43	(1)
The First Year of Life
The Three Levels in the Child	44	(8)
Instinct	44	(2)
Training	46	(1)
Intellect	47	(4)
References	51	(1)
The First Steps in the Development of Language
The sources	52	(2)
How does speech attain to meaning?	54	(2)
The discovery of the naming function	56	(3)
References	59	(1)
The Nature of the conscious states of the infant	59	(4)
The Development of the Perceptions of the Child	63	(22)
The Development of the Perception of Space and Time
The appreciation of depth	66	(1)
Nativism in the perception of space	67	(2)
The differentiation of the principal directions	69	(2)
The idea of time	71	(3)
References	74	(1)
The Perception of size, shape, and Number
Size	75	(1)
Shape	76	(3)
Quantities, groups, series, numbers	79	(5)
References	84	(1)
Memory and Imagination of the Child	85	(21)
The Memories of the Child	88	(3)
References	91	(1)
The Imagination of the Child at Play	91	(5)
References	96	(1)
Fairy Tales and Their Relation to the Child's Fantasies	96	(10)
The age of fairy tales	97	(1)
Psychological analysis	98	(3)
Conclusions	101	(4)
References	105	(1)
The Development of Drawing: Summary of The Literature	106	(20)
Preliminary Stages
Scribbling	107	(1)
Transition to representational drawings	108	(1)
Scribble---ornamentation	108	(1)
References	109	(1)
The Schema
Objects and style	109	(4)
Analysis of the act of drawing	113	(4)
References	117	(1)
The Realistic Picture
Lines of development	117	(2)
The actual course of development	119	(1)
Exceptional talents	120	(1)
An analogy from racial psychology	121	(3)
References	124	(2)
The Evolution of Thinking	126	(32)
The First Judgments and the Development of the Sentence
The first judgments	126	(4)
The development of the indicative statement	130	(5)
The inflection of words	135	(5)
The structure of the sentence	140	(1)
References	141	(1)
The Derivations from Judgments: Deduction and Inference	141	(5)
The Principle of analogy	142	(1)
Inferences with regard to objects	143	(3)
References	146	(1)
The Origin of Concepts	146	(12)
The beginnings	147	(2)
The most general concepts (categories)	149	(6)
The definitions of the child	155	(2)
References	157	(1)
Social Behaviour	158	(9)
Contact and the Understanding of Expression
The first stages of social contact	158	(2)
The first understanding of expression	160	(1)
The Formation of Groups
Child and adult	161	(3)
The child-group	164	(3)
Index	167