Sensitive Periods in Development
interdisciplinary Perspectives
Published on 1. April 1987
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-89859-696-0 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1987. Contemporary psychology is increasingly diversified, pluralistic, and specialized, and most psychologists venture beyond the confines of their substantive specialty only rarely. Yet psychologists with different specialties encounter similar problems, ask similar questions, and share similar concerns. Unfortunately, there are very few arenas available for the expression or exploration of what is common across psychological subdisciplines. The Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology series is intended to serve as such a forum. The chief aim of this series is to provide integrated perspectives on supradisciplinary themes in psychology. Despite its contemporary diversity and high degree of specialization, psychology embraces many phenomena that are of interest across subdisciplines largely because of the generality and ubiquity of those phenomena. The sensitive period is one. Sensitivity to different kinds of experience varies over the life cycle of an organism.
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"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
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Language
English
Place of publication
Mahwah
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89859-696-0 (9780898596960)
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Person
Marc H. Bornstein New York University
Content
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