Infancy and Human Growth

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• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• Introduction *
• Chapter I the Cycle of Mental Growth 1
• Part One the Observation of Infant Development *
• Chapter II the Control of Developmental Observation - Arrangements for the Segregation and Management of Observation 23
• Chapter III a Photographic Observatory - A Standardized Dome for Systematic Still and Motion Photography 56
• Chapter IV the Comparative Method in Observation - A Comparative Clinical Demonstration of Three Stages of Infant Development 81
• Chapter V Monthly Increments of Development in Infancy - Comparative Survey of the Progress of Behavior in the First Year of Life 97
• Chapter VI an Infant Development Recording Schedule - A Graded Schedule for the Normative Study of Infant Behavior 126
• Part Two Genetic Studies of Infant Behavior *
• Chapter VII the Tempo and Trend of Infant Development - A Summary of Mental Growth Studies of One Hundred Infants 136
• Chapter VIII Normal and Retarded Development - Individual and Comparative Studies of Developmental Tempo 164
• Chapter IX Acceleration and Superiority of Equipment - The Sympioms of Giftedness in Infancy 180
• Chapter X Atypical and Pseudo-Atypical Growth Complexes - Irregular Deviations in Developmental Trend and Tempo 198

• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• Introduction *
• Chapter I the Cycle of Mental Growth 1
• Part One the Observation of Infant Development *
• Chapter II the Control of Developmental Observation - Arrangements for the Segregation and Management of Observation 23
• Chapter III a Photographic Observatory - A Standardized Dome for Systematic Still and Motion Photography 56
• Chapter IV the Comparative Method in Observation - A Comparative Clinical Demonstration of Three Stages of Infant Development 81
• Chapter V Monthly Increments of Development in Infancy - Comparative Survey of the Progress of Behavior in the First Year of Life 97
• Chapter VI an Infant Development Recording Schedule - A Graded Schedule for the Normative Study of Infant Behavior 126
• Part Two Genetic Studies of Infant Behavior *
• Chapter VII the Tempo and Trend of Infant Development - A Summary of Mental Growth Studies of One Hundred Infants 136
• Chapter VIII Normal and Retarded Development - Individual and Comparative Studies of Developmental Tempo 164
• Chapter IX Acceleration and Superiority of Equipment - The Sympioms of Giftedness in Infancy 180
• Chapter X Atypical and Pseudo-Atypical Growth Complexes - Irregular Deviations in Developmental Trend and Tempo 198
• Chapter XI Drawing as a Developmental Index - The Infant's Crayon and Paper Behavior in Relation to Age 215
• Chapter XII the Tendency Toward Optimum in Growth - The Ascendancy of Mental Growth Over Motor Disability from Birth Injury 228
• Chapter XIII Glandular and Nutritional Factors in Mental Growth - Psycho-Developmental Aspects of Mongolism, Puberty Praecox, Thyroid Deficiency, and Rickets 245
• Chapter XIV Twinning and Growth Regulation - Some Developmental Aspects of the Physiology of Twinning 272
• Chapter XV the Mental Growth of the Premature Infant - The Developmental Consequences of Premature and Postmature Birth 299
• Part Three the Significance of Infancy *
• Chapter XVI the PreËminence of Human Infancy - Distinctive Characters of Human as Compared with Infrahuman Infancy 334
• Chapter XVII Growth Potency and Infant Personality - The Problem of Heredity in Relation to Mental Growth 355
• Chapter XVIII the Clinical Prediction of Mental Growth - Possibilities and Limitations of Developmental Prediction 379
• Chapter XIX the Measurement of Mental Growth - Principles of Developmental Measurement and Prediction 399
• Chapter XX Growth as a Medical and Social Concept - The Control of Early Human Growth 406
• Index 411