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Twenty Studies That Revolutionized Child Psychology

by: Dixon, Jr., Wallace E., Ph.D.

Twenty Studies That Revolutionized Child Psychology

by: Dixon, Jr., Wallace E., Ph.D.

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9780130415721
ISBN 10:
0130415723
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Copyright: 10/14/2002
Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

This book gives readers a systematic look at theprocess of child psychology by examining the twenty most revolutionary scientific investigations in the field over the course of the last fifty years. The individual chapters are dedicated to each revolutionary study and derived from empirical data and scientific methodology. A four-part organization examines studies that revolutionized cognitive and language development, social development and parenting, clinical child psychology, and how we think about child psychology. For those with a professional or personal interest in child and human development.

1. Introduction.

7 STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED COGNITIVE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT.

2. & 3. Piaget, J. (1952). The origins of intelligence in children. New York: International Universities Press.
4. Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
5. Fantz, R. L. (1961). The origin of form perception. Scientific American, 204, 66-72.
6. Baillageon, R. (1987). Object permanence in 3.5- and 4.5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 23, 655-664.
7. Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. (1978). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 515-526.
8. Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic structures. The Hague: Mouton.
9. Brown, R. (1973). A first language: The early stages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

6 STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTING.

10. Harlow, H., & Harlow, M. (1965). The affectional systems. In A. Schrier, H. Harlow, & F. Stollnitz (Eds.), Behavior of non-human primates. New York: Academic Press.
11. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss, Vol. 1. New York: Basic Books.
12. Ainsworth, M.D.S., Blehar, M.C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
13. Baumrind, D. (1971). Current patterns of parental authority. Developmental psychology Monographs, 4 (1, part 2).
14. Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. (1961). Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 375-382.
15. Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

3 STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.

16. Thomas, A., Chess, S., & Birch, H.G. (1968). Temperament and behavior disorders in childhood. New York: New York University Press.
17. Werner, E.E., & Smith, R.S. (2001). Journey from childhood to midlife: Risk, resilience, and recovery. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
18. Sameroff, A.J., & Chandler, M.J. (1975). Reproductive risk and the continuum of caretaker causality. In F.D. Horowitz (Ed.), Review of child development research (Vol. 4). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

4 STUDIES THAT REVOLUTIONIZED HOW WE DO AND THINK ABOUT CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.

19. Anastasi, A. (1958). Heredity, environment, and the question “How?” Psychological Review, 89, 976—984.
20. Bell, R.Q. (1968). A reinterpretation of the direction of effect in studies of socialization. Psychological Review, 75, 81-95.
21. Hubel, D.H., & Wiesel, T.N. (1965). Receptive fields of cells in striate cortex of very young, visually inexperienced kittens. Journal of Neurophysiology, 26, 944-1002.
22. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward an experimental ecology of human development. American Psychologist, 32, 513-531.

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