Developmental psychology : selected readings edited by John Sants and H.J. Butcher.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction. - Piaget, J. and Inhelder, B. Factors in mental development. - Sperry, R. W. How a developing brain gets itself properly wired for adaptive function. - Marshall, W. A. The child as a mirror of his brain's development. - Hess, E. H. The ethological approach to socialization. - Tanner, J. M. The course of children's growth. - Kay, H. The development of motor skills from birth to adolescence. - Inhelder, B. Some aspects of Piaget's genetic approach to cognition. - Kagan, J. The determinants of attention in the infant. - White, B. L. The initial coordination of sensorimotor schemes in human infants; Piaget's ideas and the role of experience. - Moss, H. A. Sex, age, and state as determinants of mother-infant interaction. - Bronson, G. Critical periods in human development. - Caldwell, B. M. What is the optimal learning environment for the young child? - Gibson, E. J. Perceptual learning and the total cognitive process. - Elkind, D. Two approaches to intelligence: Piagetian and psychometric. - Menyuk, P. Some questions about language acquisition. - Brown, R. Development of the first language in the human species. - Clarke, A. D. B., and Clarke, A. M. Consistency and variability in the growth of human characteristics. - Inhelder, B. and Piaget, J. Adolescent thinking. - Schaffer, H. R. Social learning and identification. - Bell, R. Q. A reinterpretation of the direction of effects in studies of socialization. - Stevenson, H. W. Influences on reinforcer effectiveness. - Nash, J. Sex differences and their origins. - Kohlberg, L. The child as a moral philosopher. - Bruner, J. S. Poverty and childhood.