Theories of Infant Development

by Bremner, J. Gavin; Slater, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780631233374
• ISBN10: 0631233377
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume provides an authoritative, up-to-date survey of theories of infant development. The contributors, who are all leaders in their field, present a wide range of theoretical perspectives on development in infancy. Each one provides advanced treatment of the issues and addresses current theoretical controversies in their area of expertise. The book is divided into three major sections, covering the development of perception and action, cognitive development, and social development and communication. Within these sections, each of the book 's twelve chapters presents a specific theoretical approach or reviews contrasting theories in a particular area. The editors provide a preface linking and contextualizing the material.

Author Biography

Gavin Bremner is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is the author and editor of several books, including the popular textbook Infancy (Blackwell Publishers, 2nd edition, 1994) and the Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development (Blackwell Publishing, 2002). Alan Slater is Reader in Developmental Psychology at the University of Exeter. He is co-editor of the Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), and co-editor with Gavin Bremner of Introduction to Developmental Psychology (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Part I Development of Perception and Action
A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Infant Action and its Development	3	(27)
Eugene C. Goldfield
Peter H. Wolff
A Developmental Perspective on Visual Proprioception	30	(40)
David I. Anderson
Joseph J. Campos
Marianne A. Barbu-Roth
From Direct Perception to the Primacy of Action: A Closer Look at James Gibson's Ecological Approach to Psychology	70	(20)
Alan Costall
The Development of Perception in a Multimodal Environment	90	(31)
Lorraine E. Bahrick
Neuroscience Perspectives on Infant Development	121	(24)
Mark H. Johnson
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Part II Cognitive Development
The Case for Developmental Cognitive Science: Theories of People and Things	145	(29)
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Theories of Development of the Object Concept	174	(30)
Scott P. Johnson
Remembering Infancy: Accessing Our Earliest Experiences	204	(29)
Alan Fogel
Part III Social Development and Communication
Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Temperament in the Formation of Attachment	233	(25)
Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Emerging Co-Awareness	258	(26)
Philippe Rochat
Processes of Development in Early Communication	284	(33)
David Messer
Joint Visual Attention in Infancy	317	(38)
George Butterworth
Afterword: Tribute to George Butterworth	355	(7)
Peter E. Bryant
Author Index	362	(12)
Subject Index	374