Psychology of infancy and early childhood / Ada Hart Arlitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arlitt, Ada Hart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 475 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

Psychology of infancy and early childhood

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, 1946.

Summary:

"Although there have been very few shifts in viewpoint in child psychology since 1930, the number of researches in all of its various fields has increased materially. In this volume the major researches of the past fourteen years are included together with much additional material in the field of learning, imagination, memory, and the relative effects of heredity and environment"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Approaches to the study of child psychology

Inheritance from the near ancestry

Innate equipment common to all human infants

Innate responses and tendencies to response. Reflex and random activities ; Instinctive tendencies ; Emotions

Habit formation

Sensation, perception, and perceptual learning

Imagination

Thinking process

Language, drawing, and other forms of expression

Individual differences in preschool-age children

Special problems in child development.

Notes:

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