Perspectives in child psychology; research and review. edited by Thomas D. Spencer, Norman Kass.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early environmental effects: mother-child relations / Howard A. Moss -- Prenatal maternal stress in the rat: its effects on emotional behavior in the offspring / Charles H. Hockman -- Visual alertness as related to soothing in neonates: implications for maternal stimulation and early deprivation / Anneliese F. Korner, Rose Grobstein -- Sex, age, and state as determinants of mother-infant interaction / Howard A. Moss -- Research in dimensions of early maternal care / Leon J. Yarrow -- Perception, attention, and curiosity / Weldell E. Jeffrey -- The development of depth perception in animals and human infants / Richard D. Walk -- Infants' differential reactions to familiar and distorted faces / Jerome Kagan ... [et al.] -- Instigation and maintenance of curiosity behavior as a function of surprise versus novel and familiar stimuli / William R. Charlesworth -- Language acquisition / Charles Clifton, Jr. -- The biological foundations of language / Eric H. Lenneberg -- Control of grammar in imitation, comprehension, and production / Colin Fraser, Ursula Bellugi, Roger Brown -- Social and nonsocial conditioning of infant vocalizations / Paul Weisberg -- Sex typing, dependency, and aggression / Eileen Mavis Hetherington -- A developmental study of the effects of sex of the dominant parent on sex-role preference, identification, and imitation in children / E. Mavis Hetherington -- The stability of passive and dependent behavior from childhood through adulthood / Jerome Kagan, Howard A. Moss -- Social class, parental punishment for aggression, and child aggression / Leonard D. Eron ... [et al.] -- Peer relations / Willard W. Hartup -- Imitation of a peer as a function of reinforcement from the peer group and rewardingness of the model / Willard W. Hartup, Brian Coates -- Relations between intelligence and sociometric status in groups differing in sex and socio-economic background / Merrill Roff, S.B. Sells -- Conformity as a function of age level / Philip R. Costanzo, Marvin E. Shaw -- The influence of self-esteem on rate of verbal conditioning and social matching behavior / Donna M. Gelfand -- Learning and reinforcement effects / Harold W. Stevenson -- Conditioned head-turning in human newborns / Einar R. Siqueland, Lewis P. Lipsitt -- Acquisition of imitative speech by schizophrenic children / O. Ivar Lovaas ... [et al.] -- Monetary reward and motivation in discrimination learning / Louise Brightwell Miller, Betsy Worth Estes -- Identification as a process of incidental learning / Albert Bandura, Aletha C. Huston -- Conceptual development / Harry Osser -- Development of mediating responses in children / Tracy S. Kendler -- A training procedure for acquisition of Piaget's conservation of quantity: a pilot study and its replication / Irving E. Sigel, Annemarie Roeper, Frank H. Hooper -- The influence of language on the development of concept formation in deaf children / Hans G. Furth -- The course of cognitive growth / Jerome S. Bruner.