Infant Development The Essential Readings

Infant Development: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this core area of developmental psychology and introduces the reader to the field of infancy research and to some of the current, lively controversies within this area.

Darwin Muir is Professor of Psychology at Queen's University, Ontario.

Alan Slater is Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter.
They are co-editors of the recently published Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction Infancy Research: History and Methods

xv

Darwin Muir

Alan Slater

Part I Theoretical Issues

1

(66)

Introduction

2

(1)

Why Do Infants Do What They Do? Introduction

3

(2)

Shifting the Focus From What to Why

5

(31)

C. Rovee-Collier

The Origins of Knowledge: Nature versus Nurture Introduction

35

(1)

Nativism, Empiricism, and the Origins of Knowledge

36

(19)

E. S. Spelke

Connectionist Modeling Introduction

53

(2)

Connectionist Modeling and Infant Development

55

(12)

D. Mareschal

Part II Sensation and Perception

67

(96)

Introduction

68

(1)

Fetal Sensitivity to Touch Introduction

69

(3)

Maturation of Human Fetal Responses to Vibroacoustic Stimulation

72

(23)

B. S. Kisilevsky

D. W. Muir

J. A. Low

Early Visual Perception Introduction

93

(2)

Visual Perception in the Young Infant: Early Organization and Rapid Learning

95

(24)

A. Slater

Intermodal Perception Introduction

117

(2)

Increasing Specificity in the Development of Intermodal Perception

119

(20)

L. Bahrick

Social Perception Introduction

137

(2)

Look at Me: Five-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Very Small Deviations in Eye-Gaze During Social Interactions

139

(10)

L. A. Symons

S. M. Hains

D. W. Muir

Speech Perception Introduction

147

(2)

Becoming a Native Listener

149

(14)

J. F. Werker

Part III Cognitive Development

163

(92)

Introduction

164

(1)

Newborn Imitation Introduction

165

(2)

Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates

167

(9)

A. N. Meltzoff

M. K. Moore

Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation

176

(9)

A. N. Meltzoff

M. K. Moore

Infant Counting Introduction

183

(2)

Addition and Subtraction by Human Infants

185

(10)

K. Wynn

Learning About the Physical World Introduction

193

(2)

How Do Infants Learn About the Physical World?

195

(21)

R. Baillargeon

The A-not-B Error Introduction

213

(3)

Why Do Infants Make A Not B Errors in a Search Task, Yet Show Memory for the Location of Hidden Objects in a Nonsearch Task?

216

(23)

A. Ahmed

T. Ruffman

Predicting Later Intelligence Introduction

237

(2)

Why Does Infant Attention Predict Adolescent Intelligence?

239

(16)

M. Sigman

S. E. Cohen

L. Beckwith

Part IV Social Development and Communication

255

(110)

Introduction

256

(3)

Infant-Directed Speech Introduction

259

(2)

Infant Responses to Prototypical Melodic Contours in Parental Speech

261

(9)

M. Papousek

M. H. Bornstein

C. Nuzzo

H. Papousek

D. Symmes

Early Word Comprehension Introduction

269

(1)

Some Beginnings of Word Comprehension in 6-Month-Olds

270

(12)

R. Tincoff

P. W. Jusczyk

Social Referencing Introduction

279

(3)

Maternal Emotional Signaling: Its Effect on the Visual Cliff Behavior of 1-Year-Olds

282

(13)

J. F. Sorce

R. N. Emde

J. Campos

M. D. Klinnert

Infant Understanding of Others' Intentions and Theory of Mind Introduction

293

(2)

Fourteen-Through 18-Month-Old Infants Differentially Imitate Intentional and Accidental Actions

295

(27)

M. Carpenter

N. Akhtar

M. Tomasello

Social Attachments Introduction

319

(3)

Stability and Transmission of Attachment across Three Generations

322

(21)

D. Benoit

K. Parker

Infants with Autism Introduction

341

(2)

An Experimental Investigation of Social-Cognitive Abilities in Infants with Autism: Clinical Implications

343

(22)

T. Charman

J. Swettenham

S. Baron-Cohen

A. Cox

G. Baird

A. Drew

Index

365

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