The Nature Of The Child (Tenth Anniversary

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.

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

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The Nature Of The Child (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

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