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 others.
Contributors ix
Preface xi
Part I Development of Perception and Action
1 A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Infant Action and its Development 3
Eugene C. Goldfield and Peter H. Wolff
2 A Developmental Perspective on Visual Proprioception 30
David I. Anderson, Joseph J. Campos, and Marianne A. Barbu-Roth
3 From Direct Perception to the Primacy of Action: A Closer Look at James Gibson's Ecological
Approach to Psychology 70
Alan Costall
4 The Development of Perception in a Multimodal Environment 90
Lorraine E. Bahrick
5 Neuroscience Perspectives on Infant Development 121
Mark H. Johnson and Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Part II Cognitive Development
6 The Case for Developmental Cognitive Science: Theories of People and Things 145
Andrew N. Meltzoff
7 Theories of Development of the Object Concept 174
Scott P. Johnson
8 Remembering Infancy: Accessing Our Earliest Experiences 204
Alan Fogel
Part III Social Development and Communication
9 Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Temperament in the Formation of Attachment 233
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
10 Emerging Co-Awareness 258
Philippe Rochat
11 Processes of Development in Early Communication 284
David Messer
12 Joint Visual Attention in Infancy 317
George Butterworth
Afterword: Tribute to George Butterworth 355
Peter E. Bryant
Author Index 362
Subject Index 374
