The Developing Individual in a Changing World, Vol. 2: Social and environmental issues / / ed. by John A. Meacham, Klaus F. Riegel.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
©1976
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:Reprint 2019
Language:English
Series:New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences , 24/2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 354 p.) :; Num. figs. and. tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Section IV: Environmental conditions and the development of the individual
  • 1. The responsive environment: interdisciplinary developmental issues
  • A. Environmental ontogeny: A cognitive view
  • B. Environmental reciprocity: A socio-emotional view
  • C. Histories and futures: Aspects of a study of the child's relation to the land and the city
  • 2. Effects of nutrition on development
  • A. Role of nutrition in human development
  • B. Malnutrition in infancy and intellectual development
  • C. Protein malnutrition in monkeys
  • 3. Effects of communication media on child development
  • A. The means of instruction in the attainment of educational goals
  • B. Cognitive effects of visual media
  • C. Television and the development of social behavior
  • Section V: Social organizations and the development of the individual
  • 1. Variations in home-based early education: Language, play, and social development
  • A. The construction and selection of environments: Design of the study
  • B. Play: The elaboration of possibilities
  • C. Language: The formation of discourse
  • D. Social development: Enriching connections
  • E. The Emperor's new clothes
  • 2. Comparison of model preschool programs
  • A. Remarks about curriculum implementation
  • B. Short-term cognitive effects of eleven preschool models
  • C. Dimensional analysis of preschool programs
  • D. Comparing model preschool programs
  • Section VI: Interaction in social groups and the development of the individual
  • 1. Social interaction and personality development
  • A. Social perspective-taking training: empathy and role-taking ability of preschool children
  • B. Levels and patterns of social engagement and disengagement from adolescence to middle adulthood
  • C. Education as an aid to adaptation in the adult years
  • D. Interaction of personality, SES, and social participation in old age
  • E. The generation gap: imagination or reality
  • F. Affluence, reciprocity and solidary bonds
  • 2. Variations in infant-caretaker interactions
  • A. Family interaction in the newborn period: Some findings, some observations, and some unresolved issues
  • B. The relation of infant's temperament and mother's psychopathology to interactions in early infancy
  • C. Mother-infant interaction, attachment, and mother's psychopathology
  • D. Cohort effects and apparent secular trends in infant research
  • 3. Sibling influences on the development of the individual
  • A. Sibling position, sex of child, and maternal involvement
  • B. On the extent of sibling influence
  • C. Sibling interaction and cognitive development
  • D. Social class, family size, and cognitive performance
  • E. The assessment of stability and change in peer interaction of normal hearing and deaf preschool children
  • Bibliography
  • Index to Part II