The Nature Of The Child (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

by Kagan, Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780465048526
• ISBN10: 0465048528
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-13
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

The world-famous Harvard psychologist challenges many of psychology's most deeply held assumptions about human developmentarguing, for example, that early experience does not inexorably shape our lives and that the influence of the family is more subtle than has been supposed.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Tenth-Anniversary Edition	ix
Preface	xxxvii
Guiding Themes in Human Development	3	(23)
Biology and Experience	4	(7)
Connectedness and Discontinuity in Development	11	(1)
Qualities and Quantities	12	(2)
General and Specific Constructs	14	(5)
Subjective and Objective Frames	19	(7)
The Infant	26	(47)
The Growth of Initial Knowledge	31	(19)
The Infant's Attachments	50	(14)
Temperamental Variation among Infants	64	(6)
Conclusion	70	(3)
Connectedness	73	(39)
Development as a Sequence of Stages	75	(18)
The Preservation of Individual Qualities	93	(6)
The Evidence for Stability of Differences	99	(11)
Conclusion	110	(2)
Establishing a Morality	112	(42)
The Meanings of Good and Bad	113	(5)
Can There Be Universal Standards?	118	(6)
The Emergence of Standards	124	(19)
Standards as a Source of Motives	143	(2)
The Violation of Standards	145	(4)
Evaluating the Child's Morality	149	(3)
Conclusion	152	(2)
The Emotions	154	(31)
Three Issues	156	(14)
The Measurement of Emotions	170	(2)
The Development of Emotion	172	(13)
The Generation of Thought	185	(55)
Two Issues in Cognitive Development	185	(20)
Cognitive Processes	205	(24)
The Executive Processes	229	(7)
Conclusion	236	(4)
The Role of the Family	240	(37)
The Child in the American Family	242	(8)
The Role of Family during Infancy and Childhood	250	(25)
Conclusion	275	(2)
Epilogue	277	(4)
Bibliography	281	(16)
Index	297