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Development in Infancy: An Introduction » Read Now
by Marc H. Bornstein, Michael E. Lamb, Douglas M. Teti. 502 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

This fourth edition of the best-selling topically-organized introduction to infancy reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in our understanding of infants and their place in human development over the past decade. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect current thinking and...
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This fourth edition of the best-selling topically-organized introduction to infancy reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in our understanding of infants and their place in human development over the past decade. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect current thinking and research in the field, and while classic studies continue to be cited, the text emphasizes studies published since the late 1990s. The authors have worked to maintain the readability for which this classic textbook has been known. This edition continues to be appropriate for use in classes at all levels-undergraduate and graduate-as well as in various disciplines-psychology, education, child development, nursing, and social work. The fourth edition features a number of improvements: the literature review has been thoroughly updated to reflect the results of new research; new figures have been provided to better explain important concepts and the results of recent studies; implications for practical applications and social policy have been emphasized throughout; the writing style has been revised to make the book attractive to students from diverse academic backgrounds; and orienting questions have been provided at the beginning of each chapter to facilitate understanding and learning.
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The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant: Symbiosis and Individuation » Read Now
by Anni Bergman, Margaret S. Mahler, Fred Pine. 309 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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The Psychology of Infancy and Childhood: Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives » Read Now
by Harold D. Fishbein. 435 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Infant Social Cognition: Empirical and Theoretical Considerations » Read Now
by Michael E. Lamb, Lonnie R. Sherrod. 434 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...references and index. 1. Infant psychology. 2. Social perception in...well-developed area of infant psychology, and several excellent reviews...fifteen and twenty week old...
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The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants, and the Drama of Early Attachment » Read Now
by T. Berry Brazelton, Bertrand G. Cramer. 252 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Clinical Studies in Infant Mental Health: The First Year of Life » Read Now
by Selma Fraiberg, Louis Fraiberg. 277 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...developmental psychology may already have...background in normal infant development...development in infants. The clinical psychology student and...developmental...
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Communication Development during Infancy » Read Now
by Lauren B. Adamson. 242 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...in infants . 2. Infant psychology . I. Title. BF720...new interest in infants cognition that swept psychology in the 1960s...to Piagets child psychology, see Ginsburg...
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Perceptual Development in Early Infancy: Problems and Issues » Read Now
by Ross H. Day, Beryl E. McKenzie. 308 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain » Read Now
by Sue Gerhardt. 246 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. Sue Gerhardt considers how...
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Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. She shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional well being, and goes on to look at specific early 'pathways' that can affect the way we respond to stress and lead to conditions such as anorexia, addiction, and anti-social behaviour. Why Love Matters is a lively and very accessible interpretation of the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis and biochemistry. It will be invaluable to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, mental health professionals, parents and all those concerned with the central importance of brain development in relation to many later adult difficulties.
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The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology » Read Now
by Daniel N. Stern. 312 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development (Includes discussion of infant psychology in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Eleanor J. Gibson, Anne D. Pick. 237 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their...
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The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being "blank slates" that passively absorb environmental stimuli, infants are active learners who perceptually engage their environments and extract information from them before language is available. The ecological approach to perceiving-defined as "a theory about perceiving by active creatures who look and listen and move around" was spearheaded by Eleanor and James Gibson in the 1950s and culminated in James Gibson's last book in 1979. Until now, no comprehensive theoretical statement of ecological development has been published since Eleanor Gibson's Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969). In An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development, distinguished experimental psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Anne D. Pick provide a unique theoretical framework for the ecological approach to understanding perceptual learning and development. Perception, in accordance with James Gibson's views, entails a reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her environment: the environment provides resources and opportunities for the person, and the person gets information from and acts on the environment. The concept of affordance is central to this idea; the person acts on what the environment affords, as it is appropriate. This extraordinary volume covers the development of perception in detail from birth through toddlerhood, beginning with the development of communication, going on to perceiving and acting on objects, and then to locomotion. It is more than a presentation of facts about perception as it develops. It outlines the ecological approach and shows how it underlies "higher" cognitive processes, such as concept formation, as well as discovery of the basic affordances of the environment. This impressive work should serve as the capstone for Eleanor J. Gibson's distinguished career as a developmental and experimental psychologist.
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Family Issues in Pediatric Psychology » Read Now
by Michael C. Roberts, Jan L. Wallander. 278 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Attention and Information Processing in Infants and Adults: Perspectives from Human and Animal Research » Read Now
by Byron A. Campbell, Harlene Hayne, Rick Richardson. 360 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...of attention in infants and adults of many...the Department of Psychology to support extended...sensory-selective set in young infants". Science...processing". Biological...
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Prospective Issues in Infancy Research » Read Now
by Kathleen Bloom. 176 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Includes index. 1. Infant psychology--Research--Addresses...of developmental psychology". Child Development...human neonates and infants". In A. Ambrose...in the five-month...
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Frontiers of Infant Psychiatry, Vol. I » Read Now
by Justin D. Call, Eleanor Galenson, Robert L.Tyson. 425 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...Department of Psychology, Clark University...Research Assistant, Infant Sleep Laboratory...be based on the psychology and psychopathology...infancy and that infant...
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Frontiers of Infant Psychiatry, Vol. II » Read Now
by Justin D. Call, Eleanor Galenson, Robert L. Tyson. 488 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...de Guidance Infantile, Institut de...Psychiatry and Psychology, Department of...attention in mother-infant pairs. Journal...Psychiatry and Psychology , 16:315-320...cry of...