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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830733903321

Titolo

Theories of infant development [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gavin Bremner and Alan Slater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-281-32262-8

9786611322625

0-470-70667-8

0-470-75218-1

0-470-75217-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BremnerJ. Gavin <1949->

SlaterAlan

Disciplina

155.422

305.232

Soggetti

Infants - Development

Child development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Theories of Infant Development; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I Development of Perception and Action; 1 A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Infant Action and its Development; 2 A Developmental Perspective on Visual Proprioception; 3 From Direct Perception to the Primacy of Action: A Closer Look at James Gibson's Ecological Approach to Psychology; 4 The Development of Perception in a Multimodal Environment; 5 Neuroscience Perspectives on Infant Development; Part II Cognitive Development; 6 The Case for Developmental Cognitive Science: Theories of People and Things

7 Theories of Development of the Object Concept8 Remembering Infancy: Accessing Our Earliest Experiences; Part III Social Development and Communication; 9 Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Temperament in the Formation of Attachment; 10 Emerging Co-Awareness; 11 Processes of Development in Early Communication; 12 Joint Visual Attention in Infancy; Afterword: Tribute to George Butterworth; Author Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides an authoritative survey of all the major theories of infant development. An authoritative survey of major theoretical issues in infant development. Written by leading scholars in the field of infancy. Each chapter either presents a distinct theoretical approach to infant development or reviews contrasting theories in a specific subfield. Pays particular attention to current theoretical controversies. Contributors include Eugene Goldfield, Andy Meltzoff, Marinus van Ijzendoorn, Mark Johnson and Annette Karmiloff-Smith, among o