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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824088103321

Autore

Bremner J. Gavin <1949-.>

Titolo

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Basic Research

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2010

ISBN

1-4443-5183-4

1-283-86911-X

1-78034-082-6

1-4443-2756-9

1-4443-2757-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (718 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology

Altri autori (Persone)

WachsTheodore D. <1941->

Disciplina

155.422

305.231

Soggetti

Infants -- Development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Infants -- Health and hygiene -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Child & Youth Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction to Volume 1: Basic Research; 1: Historical Reflections on Infancy; PART I: Perceptual and Cognitive Development; Introduction; 2: Visual Perception; 3: Auditory Development; 4: Intermodal Perception and Selective Attention to Intersensory Redundancy: Implications for Typical Social Development and Autism; 5: Action in Infancy - Perspectives, Concepts,and Challenges; 6: Cognitive Development: Knowledge of the Physical World; 7: Perceptual Categorization and Concepts; 8: Infant Learning and Memory

9: Functional Brain Development during InfancyPART II: Social Cognition, Communication,and Language; Introduction; 10: Emerging Self-Concept; 11: The Importance of Imitation for Theories of Social-Cognitive Development; 12: Engaging Minds in the First Year: The Developing Awareness of Attention and Intention; 13: Preverbal



Communication; 14: Early Language; PART III: Social-Emotional Development; Introduction; 15: Parent-Infant Interaction; 16: Attachment in Infancy; 17: Early Social Cognitive Skills at Play in Toddlers' Peer Interactions

18: Touch and Physical Contact d uring Infancy: Discovering the Richness of the Forgotten Sense19: Emotion and its Development in Infancy; 20: Temperament; 21: Culture and Infancy; Author Index; Subject Index; Contents of Volume 2

Sommario/riassunto

Now part of a two-volume set, the fully revised and updated second edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Volume 1: Basic Research provides comprehensive coverage of the basic research relating to infant development. Updated, fully-revised and expanded, this two-volume set presents in-depth and cutting edge coverage of both basic and applied developmental issues during infancyFeatures contributions by leading international researchers and practitioners in the field that reflect the most current theories and research findings</di