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1 online resource (xiv, 537 pages) : illustrations |
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A -- Amnesia, Infantile -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Infantile Amnesia -- For What Is There Amnesia? -- Age of Earliest Memory -- Distribution of Early Memories -- The Universality of Childhood Amnesia -- Group Differences -- Explaining Infantile or Childhood Amnesia -- Autobiographical Memories of Early Life Events Are Lacking -- Explaining Autobiographical Memory Development -- The Neural Substrate of Autobiographical Memory and Its Development -- Developments in Basic Memory Processes -- Developments in Nonmnemonic Abilities -- Developments in Language and Narrative Expression -- Linking Autobiographical Memory Development and Infantile or Childhood Amnesia -- The Rate at Which Memories Are Formed -- The Rate at Which Memories Are Forgotten -- Summary and Conclusions -- See also -- Suggested Readings -- Artistic Development -- Introduction -- Children's Drawings -- Form -- Space -- Color -- Talent or Giftedness in the Arts -- Drawing of Mentally Handicapped Children -- Divergent Interpretations -- The Development of Sculpture -- Modeling the Human Figure -- Modeling Animal Figures -- Concluding Comments -- See also -- Suggested Readings -- Attention -- Introduction -- Attention in Infancy and Early Childhood -- Orienting -- Executive or Endogenous Attention -- Psychophysiological Measures of Infant Attention -- Heart Rate -- EEG and ERPs -- Attention and Recognition Memory in Infancy -- Visual Fixation and Attention: What Does Looking Mean? -- Individual Differences in Attention -- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- Conclusion -- Suggested Readings -- B -- Bayley Scales of Infant Development -- Contemporary Research using the Bayley Scales -- Bilingualism -- Glossary -- Vocabulary Size -- Morphosyntax -- Introduction -- A Brief History -- Confluence Model -- Social Development -- Gender -- Brain Development -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Overview -- Prenatal Cortical Organization -- Defining a neocortical area -- Area differentiation: Protomap vs. protocortex -- Function -- Architectonics -- Connections -- Topography -- The development of ocular dominance columns -- Broad progressive events -- General growth -- Neurogenesis -- Myelination -- Synaptogenesis and intracortical connections -- Broad Regressive Events -- Axon retraction/synapse elimination -- Cell death -- Developmental Neuroplasticity -- Neuroimaging Techniques for the Study of Human Development -- Review -- See also -- Suggested Readings -- Brain Function -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Theories of the Functional Development of the Human Brain -- Functional Development of the Human Brain: Examples -- Face Processing -- Working Memory -- Implicit memory -- Summary and Conclusions -- See also -- Suggested Readings -- Relevant Websites -- C -- Categorization Skills and Concepts -- Another variation: Object examining -- The Sequential-Touching Method -- See also -- Cognitive Development -- Introduction -- The Shape of Early Cognitive Development -- Cognitive Development as a Web -- Developmental ladders and staircases -- Developmental webs -- Newborn -- Reflex levels -- Sensorimotor levels -- Representations -- Newborn -- Reflex levels -- Representational levels -- Newborn -- Reflex levels -- Sensorimotor levels -- Representations -- Environmental Support -- Piaget and Vygotsky -- Knowledge of Mental States -- Neuroscience Approaches -- Frontal Cortex Development, Object Permanence, and Planning -- New Horizons for Human Plasticity -- See also -- Suggested Readings -- D -- Developmental Disabilities: Cognitive -- Subtypes of Developmental Language Disorders -- Disorders of receptive and expressive language -- Etiology -- Restricted range of behaviors, interests, and activities -- Treatment -- Visual-Spatial Disabilities -- Suggested Readings -- E -- Exploration and Curiosity -- Incongruity theories -- Developmental Progression -- Relation to Other Developmental Skills -- Influences upon the Development of Exploration -- Exploration and Curiosity -- Relevant Websites -- F -- Future Orientation -- Research on Infants' and Young Children's Future-Orientation -- Future-Oriented Processes in Early Social Systems -- Learning about the Future through Conversation -- Other Methods and Methodological Challenges -- G -- Genetics and Inheritance -- Gene Expression -- Locating Genes -- See also -- Grammar -- H -- Habituation and Novelty -- Differences between Habituation-Dishabituation and Visual-Paired Comparison -- Major Theories of Habituation and Novelty -- Optimal level theory/discrepancy hypothesis -- The Role of Attention in Habituation and Novelty Detection -- Effects of Arousal on Habituation -- Neural Mechanisms Underlying Performance in the Visual-Paired Comparison -- Summary -- Head Start -- The Early Years of Head Start -- New Funding Initiative from Administration on Children, Youth and Families /Head Start Bureau -- Language Development -- Individual Differences in Humor Expression -- I -- Imagination and Fantasy -- Fantastical Beings -- What Do Children Understand about Fantastical Beings and Events? -- Individual Differences in Imagination, Pretense, and Fantasy -- Suggested Readings -- Imitation and Modeling -- Humans as the Imitative Animal -- Learning to Imitate by Associative Learning -- Regulation of Imitation by Goals and Intentions -- Special Education -- Summary -- L -- Language Acquisition Theories -- Social/Cognitive Accounts -- Constrained Invention -- Innateness Defined as Genetic Encoding -- Resilience in the face of internal variation -- Language is Not a Unitary Phenomenon -- Suggested Readings -- Language Development: Overview -- Early Syntactic Development -- Conclusion -- Suggested Readings -- Generalization in Learning -- Literacy Learning Environments -- Home -- M -- Mathematical Reasoning -- The Special Case of Small Numbers of Objects: Object Tracking and the Object-File System -- Learning to Count -- Conclusion -- Memory -- Visual Preference -- Summary -- Summary -- 6-12-Month-Olds -- Summary -- 0-1 Month of Age -- Knowledge of Objects and Events -- Causality -- Strategic Memory -- Self-Recognition -- Desire in Others -- Tool Use -- 24-36 Months of Age -- Scripts as Organizational Underpinnings for Autobiographical Memory -- Advances in Pictorial Competence -- Models as Symbols -- Pretense and Sociodramatic Play -- N -- Neonativism -- Influences of early modern philosophers -- A new form of nativism -- Struggling with Definitions -- Various Forms of Interactioninsm -- See also -- O -- Object Concept -- Evaluating Piaget's Theory -- Developmental Mechanisms of Object Concepts: Action Systems -- Integrating Information Over Time and Space: The Role of Eye Movements -- P -- Perception and Action -- Reciprocity between Perception and Action -- Sensitivity to movements of the body -- Reaching for stationary and moving objects -- Perception and Action are Context Specific -- Change Mechanisms -- Suggested Readings -- Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory -- Introduction -- Suggested Readings -- Introduction -- Types of Play -- Gender Segregation of Play -- Summary -- Extended Discourse -- Conversational Development -- The Social and Emotional Ecology of Infant Language Learning -- Perception of Phonology -- See also -- R -- Reasoning in Early Development -- Analogical Reasoning -- Suggested Readings -- S -- School Readiness -- Gender -- Self-regulation -- Sociocultural Factors -- Is day care good or bad for children? -- Once Children Begin School -- Stability of Language and Literacy Skills -- Suggested Readings -- Self Knowledge -- Introduction -- Self-Reflective Awareness -- Conclusion -- First Words -- Comprehension -- Attentional Mechanisms -- Syntactic Bootstrapping -- Conclusion -- Reactions to the Approach and Disappearance of People -- The 8-month anxiety -- Fearfulness as a marker of a new level of emotional organization -- The role of cognitive and social factors -- Consequences of Separation in Animals -- Attachment as a window on separation anxiety -- Separation anxiety in secure and insecure children -- The separation-individuation process -- Separation anxiety as a marker of emotional development -- Maternal separation anxiety -- Why Speech Perception Is Difficult -- Infant Speech Discrimination Procedures -- Audio-Visual Speech Perception -- Symbolic Thought -- Facilitation of Symbolic Thought -- T -- Theory of Mind -- Mental Representation -- Predicting and Explaining Behavior -- Mental-State Awareness in Toddlers and Young Preschoolers -- Individual Differences -- Explanations of Theory-of-Mind Development -- Twins -- Glossary -- Psychological Closeness -- Why and How We Use Twins to Study Behavior -- Comparing MZ and DZ Twins -- The Equal Environments Assumption -- Empathy and Prosocial Behaviors |
| Summary |
"Language, cognition, and memory are traditionally studied together prior to a researcher specializing in any one area. They are studied together initially because much of the development of one can affect the development of the others. Most books available now either tend to be extremely broad in the areas of all infant development including physical and social development, or specialize in cognitive development, language acquisition, or memory. Rarely do you find all three together, despite the fact that they all relate to each other. This volume consists of focused articles from the authoritative Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childood Development, and specifically targets the ages 0-3. Providing summary overviews of basic and cutting edge research, coverage includes attention, assessment, bilingualism, categorization skills, critical periods, learning disabilities, reasoning, speech development, etc. This collection of articles provides an essential, affordable reference for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians interested in cognitive development, language development, and memory, as well as those developmental psychologists interested in all aspects of development. Focused content on age 0-3- saves time searching for and wading through lit on full age range for developmentally relevant info Concise, understandable, and authoritative-easier to comprehend for immediate applicability in research"--EBL |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Memory in infants.
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Memory in children.
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Cognition in infants.
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Cognition in children.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Child.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Child & Adolescent.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Child Development.
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Cognition in children
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Cognition in infants
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Language acquisition
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Memory in children
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Memory in infants
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Benson, Janette B., 1956-
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Haith, Marshall M., 1937-
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| ISBN |
9780123785763 |
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0123785766 |
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