Seeing Babies in a New Light


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Seeing Babies in a New Light: The Life of Hanus Papousek presents the first in-depth examination of the scientific contributions and life of Hanus Papousek (1922-2000), a leading figure in modern infancy research. The aim is to illuminate the research and ideas of this pediatrician and scholar who was one of the first to examine systematically the world of newborns, a relatively new area of developmental research in the mid-20th century. Papousek's pioneering studies of infants in the early 1950s in Prague are examined to show how his early conditioning studies, together with those of a handful of other researchers in the U.S., shattered prevailing views of infancy in both the East and West. The book also investigates how Papousek and his work, despite Cold War attitudes and restrictions, gradually gained international attention in the early 1960s. In 1970, he left Czechoslovakia to begin a new life in the West, first at Harvard University, and then at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. Until his retirement, Papousek published many innovative studies on parent-infant interactions and developed a theory of Intuitive Parenting with his wife, Mechthild. These theoretical and methodological contributions are discussed, as well as contemporary applications to interventions in the area of infant mental health. This book appeals to teachers and professionals working in the fields of developmental psychology, early childhood education, infancy studies, parenting, and the history of psychology--as well as students preparing for careers in these areas.




Développement et fonctionnement cognitifs chez l'enfant


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Cette édition numérique a été réalisée à partir d'un support physique, parfois ancien, conservé au sein du dépôt légal de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, conformément à la loi n° 2012-287 du 1er mars 2012 relative à l'exploitation des Livres indisponibles du XXe siècle. Pages de début Présentation Nouvelles approches 1 - L'étude génétique des « structurations logiques » : quoi de neuf ? ? 2 - Le développement des concepts spatiaux : de la théorie de Piaget aux théories du traitement de l'information 3 - Unicité ou pluralité dans le développement cognitif : les relations entre image mentale, action et perception Nouveaux objets 4 - Catégories et processus de catégorisation 5 - De l'acquisition du langage à la construction des conduites langagières 6 - Instrumentation sensori-motrice et acquisitions de connaissances chez l'enfant : l'exemple de l'acquisition de la lecture 7 - La formation d'actions motrices chez l'enfant, aspects sensori-moteurs 8 - Pour une analyse fonctionnelle du développement des actes moteurs : comment est interprétée la motricité des bébés Nouveaux champs 9 - En quoi les recherches sur le développement des compétences sociales questionnent-elles les théories générales du développement cognitif ? 10 - Mécanismes psychosociaux des constructions cognitives : perspectives de recherche à l'âge scolaire 11 - Une méthode d'apprentissage destinée à analyser les relations entre développement et fonctionnement cognitifs 12 - Acquisition de connaissances scientifiques et développement 13 - Développement et fonctionnement cognitifs dans le champ conceptuel desstructures additives Pages de fin.







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Eudised R & D Bulletin


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The Development of Executive Function in Early Childhood


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This monograph concerns the psychological processes underlying the development of executive function, or the conscious control of thought and action. It has long been clear that these processes change considerably in early childhood, transforming a relatively stimulus-driven toddler into a child capable of flexible, goal-directed problem solving. However, the nature of these processes has remained elusive. In a programmatic series of 9 experiments, the authors examine circumstances that help or hinder executive function in 3- to 4-year-old children. The results provide the basis for a revision of their Cognitive Complexity and Control (CCC-r) theory, according to which there are age-related increases in the complexity of the rules that children can formulate and use when solving problems. The revised theory (a) specifies more clearly the circumstances in which children will have difficulty using rules at various levels of complexity, (b) provides a more detailed account of how to determine the complexity of rules required in a task, (c) takes account of both the activation and inhibition of rules as a function of experience, and (d) highlights the importance of considering intentionality in the study of executive function.