Twenty studies that revolutionized child psychology / Wallace E. Dixon, Jr.

Preface -- 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Seven Studies That Revolutionized Cognitive And Language Development -- 2: From Mollusks To Rugrats: Biological Principles And Psychological Ideas -- 3: When Thinking Begins -- Origins of intelligence in children / J Piaget -- 4: Marxist Revolution In Psychology -- Mind in society: the development of higher psychological processes / L S Vygotsky -- 5: Eyes Have It -- Origin of form perception / R L Fantz -- 6: Drawbridge Studies -- Object permanence in 3_5- and 4_5-month-old infants / R Baillargeon -- 7: Do You Know What I Know? -- Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? / D Premack, & G Woodruff -- 8: Language Development And The Big Bang Theory -- Syntactic structures / N Chomsky -- 9: Adam And Eve And The Garden Of Eden -- First language: the early stages / R Brown -- Part 2: Six Studies That Revolutionized Social Development And Parenting -- 10: She Loves Me, But She Loves Me Not -- Affectional systems / H F Harlow, M K Harlow -- 11: Invisible Bungee Cord -- Attachment and loss / J Bowlby -- 12: What A Strange Situation -- Patterns of attachment: a psychological study of the strange situation / M D S Ainsworth, M C Blehar, E Waters, & S Wall -- 13: This Is Gonna Hurt You A Lot More Than It's Gonna Hurt Me -- Current patterns of parental authority / D Baumrind -- 14: Monkey See, Monkey Do -- Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models / A Bandura, D Ross, & S Ross -- 15: Ethic Of Care: It's A Woman Thing -- In a different voice: psychological theory and women's development / C Gilligan -- Part 3: Three Studies That Revolutionized Clinical Child Psychology -- 16: If You Were Born First, I Would've Stopped -- Temperament and behavior disorders in childhood / A Thomas, S Chess, & H G Birch -- 17: Armadillos Aren't the Only Mammals That Grow Armor -- Journeys from childhood to midlife: risk, resilience, and recovery / E E Werner, & R S Smith -- 18: Keep The Baby And The Bathwater -- Reproductive risk and the continuum of caretaker casualty / A J Sameroff, & M J Chandler -- Part 4: Four Studies That Revolutionized How We Do And Think About Child Psychology -- 19: Choreographing The Nature-Nurture Dance -- Heredity, environment, and the question "how?" / A Anatasi -- 20: What Comes Around Goes Around -- Reinterpretation of the direction of effect in studies of socialization / R Q Bell -- 21: Developmental Lessons From Kitten Brains -- Receptive fields of cells in striate cortex of very young, visually inexperienced kittens / D H Hubel, & T N Wiesel -- 22: Governments, Grade Schools, And Grocery Stores: Multiple Levels Of Influence -- Toward an experimental ecology of human development -- Glossary -- Credits -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.