Advances in child development and behavior. Volume 1 / edited by Lewis P. Lipsitt, Charles C. Spiker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipsitt, Lewis Paeff, 1929-2021.

Spiker, Charles C.

Series:

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Advances in child development and behavior ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Children--Conduct of life.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1963.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

ADV IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT &BEHAVIOR V 1

Contents:

Front Cover; Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume I; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Responses of Infants and Children to Complex and Novel Stimulation; I. Introduction; II. A Frame of Reference; III. Studies of Stimulus Complexity; IV. Studies of Stimulus Novelty; V. Conclusions; References; Chapter 2. Word Associations and Children's Verbal Behavior; I. Historical Interest in Children's Word Associations; II. Recent Uses of Word Associations; III. A Normative Study of Word Associations; IV. Experimental Uses of the Normative Data; References

Chapter 3. Change in the Stature and Body Weight of North American Boys during the Last 80 YearsI. Introduction; II. Secular Change in Stature; III. Secular Change in Body Weight; IV. Postscript; References; Chapter 4. Discrimination Learning Set in Children; I. Introduction; II. Review of the literature; III. Recent Approaches; IV. Theoretical Analysis and Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. Learning in the First Year of Life; I. Introduction; II. Definition of learning; III. The Prenatal Period; IV. lnfrahuman Infant learning; V. The First Three Weeks After Birth

VI. The Fourth Week and BeyondVII. Summary; References; Chapter 6. Some Methodological Contributions from a Functional Analysis of Child Developments; I. The laboratory-Experimental Method Applied to Past Interactions: An Example of Abstraction learning; II. Another Approach to an Experimental Study of Past Experiences; III. Some Methodological Problems in the Analysis of Social Reinforcement; IV. laboratory-Experimental Studies of Social Reinforcement; V. Field-Experimental Studies of Social Reinforcement; VI. Concluding Comments; References

Chapter 7. The Hypothesis of Stimulus Interaction and an Explanation of Stimulus CompoundingI. Introduction; II. The Hypothesis of Stimulus Interaction; Ill. Deduction With the Hypothesis of Stimulus Interaction; IV. Summary; References; Chapter 8. The Development of ""Overconstancy"" in Space Perception; I. The Problem of ""Overconstancy"" in Space Perception; II. Constancy and Beyond: A Survey of the Developmental literature; III. An Investigation of the Development of Overconstancy in Distance Perception; IV. Constancy and Overconstancy: A Reassessment

V. A Note on Research Strategy in the Study of the Development of PerceptionReferences; Chapter 9. Miniature Experiments i n the Discrimination Learning of Retardates; I. Methodology; II. Data and Theory; III. Mathematical Treatments; IV. General Summary; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-44243-7

9786611442439

0-08-056573-5

OCLC:

437213387