Sensitive Periods in Development : interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780898596960 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 308 str.

M. H. Bornstein;M. H. Bornstein

Opis

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"In sum, Marc Bornstein and most of his collaborators have succeeded admirably in training their respective disciplinary lenses on the topic of sensitive periods in development and deepening our insight into this important topic of developmental analysis and theory."
—Contemporary Psychology

Spis treści

Preface PART I: SENSITIVE PERIODS IN DEVELOPMENT: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 1. Sensitive Periods in Development: Definition, Existence, Utility, and Meaning 2. Developmental Changes in Sensitivity to Experience PART II: SENSITIVE PERIODS IN INFRAHUMAN PSYCHOBIOLOGY AND HUMAN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 3. Perceptual Development and Experience-Dependent Changes in Cat Visual Cortex 4. Critical Events During Sensitive Periods of Social Development in Rats 5. Imprinting and the Critical Period for Social Attachments: Some Laboratory Investigations 6. Neural Insult and Critical Period Concepts 7. Crucial Period Effect in Psychoendocrinology: Two Syndromes, Abuse Dwarfism and Female (CVAH) Hermaphroditis PART III: SENSITIVE PERIODS IN HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY 8. Is There a “Sensitive Period” in Human Mental Development? 9. Relevance of the Notion of a Critical Period to Language Acquisition 10. Critical Periods in Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality Development 11. Mother-Infant Bonding as a Critical Period 12. Critical Periods in Processes of Social Organization

O autorze

Marc H. Bornstein New York University