Table Of ContentDevelopment in Infancy
This topically organized text provides a comprehensive overview of infant development with a strong
theoretical and research base. Readers gain a clear understanding of infant development and issues that
will be the focus of significant advances in infancy studies in the future. The new fifth edition reflects the
enormous changes in the field that have occurred over the past decade. The thoroughly revised chapters
emphasize work from the 21st century, although classic references are retained, and explore contextual,
methodological, neurological, physical, perceptual, cognitive, communicative, emotional, and social fac-
ets of infant development. The fifth edition features a more accessible style and an enhanced pedagogical
and teaching resource program.
This extensively revised edition features a number of changes:
• An enhanced pedagogical program features orienting questions at the beginning of each chapter
and bold face key terms listed at the end of the chapter and defined in the glossary to help facilitate
understanding and learning.
• Two new boxes in each chapter—Science in Translation illustrates applied issues and Set for Life
highlights the significance of infancy for later development.
• Increased emphasis on practical applications and social policy.
• More graphs, tables, and photos that explain important concepts and findings.
• Literature reviews are thoroughly updated and reflect contemporary research.
• All new teaching web resources—Instructors will find PowerPoints, electronic versions of the
text figures, and a test bank, and students will find hyperlinked references and electronic versions
of the key concepts and the definitions.
Intended for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate courses on infant (and toddler) develop-
ment, or infancy or early child development taught in departments of psychology, human development
and family studies, education, nursing, social work, and anthropology, this book also appeals to social
service providers, policy makers, and clergy who work with community institutions. Prerequisites include
introductory courses on child development and general psychology.
service providers, policy makers, and clergy who work with community institutions. Prerequisites include
introductory courses on child development and general psychology.
Marc H. Bornstein is Senior Investigator and Head of Child and Family Research at the Eunice Kennedy
Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Editor of Parenting: Science and
Practice.
Martha E. Arterberry is Professor of Psychology at Colby College, Maine.
Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Development in Infancy
A Contemporary Introduction
Fifth edition
Marc H. Bornstein
Martha E. Arterberry
Michael E. Lamb
Psychology Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Bornstein, Marc H. Development in infancy : a contemporary introduction.—
Fifth edition / Marc H. Bornstein, Martha E. Arterberry, Michael E. Lamb.
pages cm
1. Infants—Development. 2. Infant psychology.
I. Arterberry, Martha E. II. Lamb, Michael E., 1953–
III. Title.
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To those who kindled our scholarly interests:
Mary Ainsworth, William Kessen, Philip Kellman,
Hanuš Papoušek, and Albert Yonas
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Brief Contents
List of Boxes xv
List of Figures xvi
List of Tables xx
About the Authors xxi
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxv
1 Introduction 1
2 The Many Ecologies of Infancy 25
3 Methods of Research in Infancy 50
4 Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn 80
5 Physical and Motor Development in Infancy 109
6 Perceptual Development in Infancy 138
7 Cognition in Infancy 166
8 Representation in Infancy 195
9 Language Development in Infancy 222
10 Emotions and Temperament in Infancy 253
11 Infant Social Development in the Family 280
12 Infant Social Cognition 307
Glossary 326
References 343
Author Index 400
Subject Index 419
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Detailed Contents
List of Boxes xv
List of Figures xvi
List of Tables xx
About the Authors xxi
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxv
1 INTRODUCTION 1
Heredity and Experience 2
Past, Present, and Future 2
Some Specific Mechanisms of Heredity and Experience 6
The Lasting Significance of Infancy 8
Proponents of the Importance of Early Experience 9
Stability and Continuity 11
Normative Development and Individual Variation 12
Proponents of Discontinuity 14
Stages 14
Parental Curiosity and Applications 16
Scientific Infancy Studies 19
Systems 19
Challenges 20
Outline of This Book 21
Summary 24
Key Terms 24
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