Contents:

Contemporary issues

Method and theory

Experimental research in child psychology/ Boyd R. McCandless and Charles C. Spiker

An ecological orientation in psychology/ Edwin P. Willems

Research in the psychological development of infants: an overview/ William Kessen

Biological Factors

The phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior/ B.F. Skinner

Phyletic differences in learning/ M.E. Bitterman

Microscopic brains/ V.G. Dethier

Early experience, genotype, and temperament in mus musculus/ Gardner Lindzey, Harvey D. Winston and Martin Manosevitz

Genotype-correlated parental influences in two strains of mice/ Robert H. Ressler

Environmental complexity, cerebral change, and behavior/ Mark R. Rosenzweig

Speech lateralization in young children as determined by an auditory test/ Doreen Kimura

Early experience and critical periods

The heterosexual affectional system in monkeys/ Harry F. Harlow

The later effects of an experimental modification of mothering/ Harriet L. Rheingold and Nancy Bayley

Imprinting in birds/ Eckhard H. Hess

Critical periods in behavioral development/ J.P. Scott

Critical periods, stimulus input, and emotional reactivity: a theory of infantile stimulation/ Victor H. Denenberg

The usefulness of the critical period hypothesis in the study of filiative behavior/ Bettye M. Caldwell

Learning

The development of learning in the rhesus monkey/ Harry F. Harlow

Vertical and horizontal processes in problem solving/ Howard H. Kendler and Tracy S. Kendler

Developmental changes in problem-solving strategies

Verbal learning in children/ Geoffrey Keppel

Learning to read/ Eleanor J. Gibson

Motivation and emotion

Experience and the development of motivation, some reinterpretations/ J.McV. Hunt

Age and uncertainty: developmental variation in preference for variability/ Harry Munsinger, William Kessen and Marion L. Kessen

The development of manipulatory responsiveness in the infant rhesus monkey/ William A. Mason, Harry F. Harlow and Robert R. Rueping

The problem of "innate fear" of the hawk shape: an experimental study with mallard ducks/ Ronald Melzack, E. Penick, and E. Beckett

Development of fear in the rat as measured by behavior in the open field/ Douglas L. Candland and Byron A. Campbell

Reinstatement/ Byron A. Campbell and Julian Jaynes

Perception

Experimental investigations of the genesis of visual space perception/ William Epstein

Movement-produced stimulation in the development of visually guided behavior/ Richard Held and Alan Hein

Perception in object orientation in infants/ John S. Watson

Maturation pattern vision in infants during the first six months/ Robert F. Fantz, J. M. Ordy and M.S. Udelf

Language development

Understanding language without ability to speak: a case report/ Eric H. Lennenberg

Three processes in the child's acquisition of syntax/ Roger Brown and Ursula Bellugi

The ontogeny of English phrase structure: the first phase

Imitation and grammatical development in children/ Dan I. Slobin

Conceptual Development

Learning and operational convergence in logical thought development/ Harry Beilin

Stimulus uncertainty as a variable in the development of conceptual ability/ Sonia Osler and Ellin Kofsky

The course of cognitive growth/ Jerome S. Bruner

The influence of language and experience on discovery and the use of logical symbols/ Hans G. Furth and James Youniss

Heredity, environment and the question "how"/ Anne Anastasi

Early experience and the socialization of cognitive modes in children

On the growth of intelligence/ Nancy Bayley

Ability factors and environmental influences/ Philip E. Vernon

Personality and behavior problems

The persisting effects of early family experiences upon personality development/ Leland H. Stott

Relationships between rate of physical maturing and personality among boys of Italian descent/ Paul Maussen and H. Bouterline-Young

Parental attitudes and child adjustment/ Donald R. Peterson, Wesley C. Becker, Leo A. Hellmer, Donald J. Shoemaker and Herbert C. Quay

Behavior problems of middle childhood/ Donald R. Peterson

Behavior problems in early adolescence/ Herbert C. Quay and Lorene F. Quay

Socialization and Cross-Cultural Studies

A configurational analysis of children's reports of parent behavior/ Earl S. Schaefer

N Achievement and father dominance in Turkey/ Norman M. Bardburn

A comparative test of the status envy, social power, and secondary reinforcement theories of identificatory learning/ Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Shiela A. Ross

Imitation and retention of film-mediated aggresive peer and adult models/ David J. Hicks

A cross-cultural survey of some sex differences in socialization/ Herbert Barry III, Margaret K. Bacon and Irvin L. Child

Cross-cultural research on personality/ W.H. Holtzman