Beyond Heredity and Environment: Myrtle McGraw and the Maturation Controversy

ISBN-13: 9780367009090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 324 str.

Thomas C Dalton

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Myrtle McGraw's pioneering contributions to the field of child development have been readily acknowledged and documented, yet controversy persists among psychologists as to how to interpret her ideas about significant factors that influence learning. This collection includes some of McGraw's most cogent work, including five previously unpublished e

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Foreword: Myrtle McGraw's Nascent and Pioneering Use of Embryology to Understand Human Development -- Preface -- Reconsidering McGraw's Contribution to Developmental Psychology -- Insights and Blunders -- Introduction: My First Science Teacher -- Perspectives of Infancy and Early Childhood -- Professional and Personal Blunders in Child Development -- The Maturation Controversy -- Introduction: Johnny and Jimmy and the Maturation Controversy: Popularization, Misunderstanding, and Setting the Record Straight -- Later Development of Children Specially Trained During Infancy: Johnny and Jimmy at School Age -- Signals of Growth -- The Experimental Twins -- Infant Motor Development: A Study of the Effect of Special Exercises -- The Problem of Using Secondary Sources: Elkind's Blunders -- Coghill, Neuroembryology, and the Principles of Development -- Introduction: McGraw's Alternative to Gesell's Maturationist Theory -- The Function of Reflexes in the Behavior Development of Infants -- Behavior Development -- General Principles of Growth -- Individual Development -- Let Babies Be Our Teachers -- Psychobiology and the Interdisciplinary Study of Infant Development -- Introduction: The Developmental Psychobiology of Myrtle McGraw -- Basic Concepts and Procedures in a Study of Behavior Development -- Maturation of Behavior -- An Open Letter to Parents of Young Infants -- Challenges for Students of Infancy -- Epilogue: A Developmental Neurologist's "Homage"

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Thomas C Dalton