Advances in child development and behavior. Volume 6 / edited by Hayne W. Reese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reese, Hayne Waring, 1931-

Series:

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Advances in child development and behavior ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, c1971.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

ADV IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT &BEHAVIOR V 6

Contents:

Front Cover; Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 6; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents of Previous Volumes; Chapter 1. Incentives and Learning in Children; I. Introduction; II. Scaling Children's Rewards or Incentives; III. Incentive Magnitude and Selective Learning; IV. Incentive Magnitude in Verbal Learning; V. Other Incentive Approaches; VI. Empirical and Theoretical Implications; References; Chapter 2. Habituation in The Human Infant; I. Introduction; II. Research on Habituation; III. Summary and Conclusions; References

Chapter 3. Application of Hull-Spence Theory to the Discrimination Learning of ChildrenI. Introduction; II. Theoretical Background; III. Theoretical Fit to Empirical Data; IV. Discussion; References; Chapter 4. Growth in Body Size: A Compendium of Findings on Contemporary Children Living in Different Parts of the World; I. Introduction; II. Body Size at Birth; III. Body Size at Age 1 Year; IV. Change in Body Size between Ages 1 Year and 4 Years; V. Body Size and Increment in Middle Childhood; VI. Change in Body Size of Boys between Ages 7 Years and 12 Years; VII. Summary; References

Chapter 5. Imitation and Language DevelopmentI. Introduction; II. Some Important Characteristics of Imitation for the Analysis of Language; III. The Use of Imitation in Language Development; IV. Summary and Discussion; References; Chapter 6. Conditional Responding as a Paradigm for Observational, Imitative Learning and Vicarious-Reinforcement; I. Introduction; II. Observational Learning: A Pervasive and Focal Issue; III. Observational Learning as a Conventional Learning Process; IV. Conditional Responding: An Alternative Paradigm for Observational, Imitative Learning

V. Level of Analytic Detail Required and the Place of Presumed Cognitive, Intrapsychic Acts in Matching-Behavior AnalysesVI. Recapitulation; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-71818-1

9786611718183

0-08-056578-6

OCLC:

476212784