Advances in child development and behavior. Vol. 3 / 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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1967.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

ADV IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT &BEHAVIOR V 3

Contents:

Front Cover; Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 3; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents of Previous Volumes; Chapter 1. Infant Sucking Behavior and Its Modification; I. General Introduction; II. Quantitative Description of the Sucking Response; III. Experimental Procedures for Modifying The Sucking Response; IV. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 2. The Study of Brain Electrical Activity in Infants; I. Introduction; Methodology; II. EEG Development in Infancy; III. Brain Electrical Responses in Infancy; IV. Conclusion; References

Chapter 3. Selective Auditory Attention in ChildrenI. Statement of the Research Problem; II. Age Trends in Selective Listening; III. The Effects of Preparatory Set; IV. Individual Differences; V. Implications for the Development of Listening Skills in Childhood; References; Chapter 4. Stimulus Definition and Choice; I. Introduction; II. Definitions and Terminology; III. The Two-Stimulus Problem; IV. The Intermediate-Size Problem; V. Choice Gradients for Individual Subjects; VI. The Determinants of Choice; VII. Concluding Comments; References

Chapter 5. Experimental Analysis of Inferential Behavior in ChildrenI. Theoretical Background; II. Initial Research on Inferential Behavior of Children; III. Development of Inferential Behavior in Children; IV. Infrahuman Reasoning; V. Influence of Experimental Variables on Inferential Behavior of Children; VI. Pooled Developmental and Experimental Results; VII. Discussion; VIII. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 6. Perceptual Integration in Children; I. Introduction; II. Experimenter Comparison of Sense Modality Functioning; III. Conflict of Sensory Input; IV. Intermodal Transfer

V. ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 7. Component Process Latencies in Reaction Times of Children and Adults; I. Methods and Interpretations in Studies of Reaction Time; II. A Proposed Distribution Function for RTs; III. Studies of the Distribution Parameters; IV. Summary and Concluding Remarks; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-98187-7

9786611981877

0-08-056575-1

OCLC:

476237767