 
Infant Development: The Essential Readings
ISBN: 978-0-631-21747-3
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400 pages
April 2000, ©2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Infancy Research: History and Methods.
Part I: Theoretical Issues.
1. Shifting the Focus From What to Why.
2. Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge.
3. Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development.
Part II: Sensation and Perception.
4. Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic Stimulation.
5. Visual perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and Rapid Learninng.
6. Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal Perception.
7. Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small Deviations in Eye-Gaze.
8. Becoming a Native Listener.
Part III: Cognitive Development.
9a. Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates.
9b. Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation.
10. Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants.
11. How Do Infants learn About the Physical World?.
12. Why Do Infants Make A-not-B Errors in a Search Task, Yet Show Memory for the.
13. Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent Intelligence?.
Part IV: Social Development and Communication.
14. Infant Responses to Prototypical melodic Contours in Parental Speech.
15. Early Word Comprehension in 6-Moth-Olds.
16. Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff Behavior of 1-Year-Olds.
17. Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants.
18. Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three Generations.
19. An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications.
Index.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Infancy Research: History and Methods.
Part I: Theoretical Issues.
1. Shifting the Focus From What to Why.
2. Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge.
3. Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development.
Part II: Sensation and Perception.
4. Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic Stimulation.
5. Visual perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and Rapid Learninng.
6. Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal Perception.
7. Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small Deviations in Eye-Gaze.
8. Becoming a Native Listener.
Part III: Cognitive Development.
9a. Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates.
9b. Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation.
10. Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants.
11. How Do Infants learn About the Physical World?.
12. Why Do Infants Make A-not-B Errors in a Search Task, Yet Show Memory for the.
13. Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent Intelligence?.
Part IV: Social Development and Communication.
14. Infant Responses to Prototypical melodic Contours in Parental Speech.
15. Early Word Comprehension in 6-Moth-Olds.
16. Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff Behavior of 1-Year-Olds.
17. Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants.
18. Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three Generations.
19. An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications.
Index.
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