Psychological Development from Infancy : Image to Intention.

Cover -- Half Title Page -- TItle Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Series Prologue -- Contributors to This Volume -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication Page -- 1. Introduction -- References -- Part 1: Perceptual and Motor Development -- 2. Perspectives on Infant Motor System Development -- Introduction -- Reflections -- An Expanded View -- The Period of Ontogenesis -- Functional Maturation -- Comments -- References -- 3. Perceptual Development: Stability and Change in Feature Perception -- Introduction -- Perceptual Features -- Mature Feature Perception -- Immature Feature Perception: Innate Knowledge? -- The Biology of Perceptual Features -- Experience and Perceptual Development -- Meaning, Function, and Significance of Perceptual Features -- References -- 4. The Origins of Facial Pattern Recognition -- Introduction -- Operational Definitions -- Differentiation at Five to Seven Months -- Limiting Conditions -- Detection of Invariant Features -- Facilitation of Recognition -- Summary and Discussion -- References -- 5. Spatial Reference Systems in Perceptual Development -- Introduction -- Tasks and Reference Systems -- How Frames of Reference are Used -- References -- 6. Commentary -- Part II: Cognitive Development -- 7. Structure and Process in the Human Infant: The Ontogeny of Mental Representation -- Introduction: What We Ask of the Infant -- The Historical Bases for Faith in Continuity -- Cognitive Development in Infancy -- Developmental Changes in Reaction to Discrepant Experience -- Structure and Process -- Summary and Implications -- References -- 8. Qualitative Transitions in Behavioral Development in the First Two Years of Life -- Introduction -- General Orientation -- Overview of the Conceptual Orientation -- Description of Stages -- Epilogue -- References.

9. The Figurative and the Operative in Piagetian Psychology -- Introduction -- The Figurative and the Operative -- Conceptions of Development from Infancy -- The Figurative/Operative Distinction and Other Conceptions of Development -- Implications -- Conclusions -- References -- 10. From Adaptive Responses to Social Cognition: The Learning View of Development -- Introduction -- Infant Observation and Experimentation as a Beginning -- Why Begin Psychological Research in Infancy? -- Conditioning, Learning, and Cognition -- Social Interaction and Play -- Future Directions -- References -- 11. Commentary -- Part Ill: Language and Social Development -- 12. Acquiring the Concept of the Dialogue -- Introduction -- The Social or the Lonely Infant? -- Temporal Patterning in Early Interaction -- Social Preadaptation -- The Parent's Role -- The Infant's Interactive Achievements -- Cognitive Mechanisms and Social Development -- Conclusions -- References -- 13. The Role of Language in Infant Development -- Introduction -- Cognitive Prerequisites -- The Communication Component -- The Missing Link: Development From 12 to 18 Months -- The Coordination of the Social and Object Worlds In and Out of Language -- Language and the Coordination of Social and Object Worlds -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 14. Dialectical Approaches to Early Thought and Language -- Introduction -- Dialectics of Development -- Dialectics and Language Development -- Conclusions -- References -- 15. Commentary: A Trialogue on Dialogue -- Biographical Notes -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

First published in 1979, a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of older children. Eminent research workers attempt to cross the theoretical, empirical, and methodological barriers that had traditionally separated the study of preverbal infants from the study of verbal children and adults.

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