The Child and Its Family

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Issues in the Study of the Social Network

   • Michael Lewis, Leonard A. Rosenblum

   Pages 1-7

3. The Child’s Social Network: Social Object, Social Functions, and Their Relationship

   • Michael Lewis, Candice Feiring

   Pages 9-27

4. The Infant as a Focus for Family Reciprocity

   • T. Berry Brazelton, Michael W. Yogman, Heidelise Als, Edward Tronick

   Pages 29-43

5. Conceptualization of Father Influences in the Infancy Period

   • Frank A. Pedersen, Leon J. Yarrow, Barbara J. Anderson, Richard L. Cain Jr.

   Pages 45-66

6. The Infant’s Exposure to Talk by Familiar People: Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings in Different Environments

   • Charles W. Greenbaum, Rivka Landau

   Pages 67-89

7. The Family as a System of Mutual Influences: Parental Beliefs, Distancing Behaviors, and Children’s Representational Thinking

   • Ann V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi, Irving E. Sigel, James E. Johnson

   Pages 91-106

8. Self-Recognition in Chimpanzees and Man: A Developmental and Comparative Perspective

   • Gordon G. Gallup Jr.

   Pages 107-126

9. Only Children, Stereotypes, and Research

   • Toni Falbo

   Pages 127-142

10. Interaction between Young Siblings in the Context of Family Relationships

    • Judy Dunn, Carol Kendrick

    Pages 143-168

11. (Toddlers + Toys) = (An Autonomous Social System)

    • Edward Mueller

    Pages 169-194

12. The Effect of Adults on Peer Interactions

    • Leonard A. Rosenblum, Edward H. Plimpton

    Pages 195-217

13. Differential Development of Various Social Relationships by Rhesus Monkey Infants

    • Stephen J. Suomi

    Pages 219-244

14. Young Children’s Concepts of Social Relations: Social Functions and Social Objects

    • Carolyn Pope Edwards, Michael Lewis

    Pages 245-266

15. The Changing American Family and Its Implications for Infant Social Development: The Sample Case of Maternal Employment

    • Michael E. Lamb, Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Margaret Tresch Owen

    Pages 267-291

16. Back Matter

    Pages 293-304

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How are we to understand the complex forces that shape human behavior? A variety of diverse perspectives, drawing upon studies of human behavioral ontogeny, as well as humanity's evolutionary heri­ tage, seem to provide the best likelihood of success. It is in the attempt to synthesize such potentially disparate approaches to human develop­ ment into an integrated whole that we undertake this series on the Genesis of Behavior. In many respects, the incredible burgeoning of research in child development over the last decade or two seems like a thousand lines of inquiry spreading outward in an incoherent starburst of effort. The need exists to provide, on an ongoing basis, an arena of discourse within which the threads of continuity between those diverse lines of research on human development can be woven into a fabric of meaning and understanding. Scientists, scholars, and those who attempt to translate their efforts into the practical realities of the care and guidance of infants and children are the audience that we seek to reach. Each requires the opportunity to see-to the degree that our knowledge in given areas permits-various aspects of development in a coherent, integrated fashion. It is hoped that this series, which will bring together research on infant biology, developing infant capacities, animal models, the impact of social, cultural, and familial forces on development, and the distorted products of such forces under certain circumstances, will serve these important social and scientific needs.

• Recognition
• Stereotyp
• behavior
• care
• child
• child development
• children
• complex
• development
• family
• human behavior
• knowledge
• research

• Educational Testing Service, Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children, Princeton, USA

  Michael Lewis

• Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA

  Leonard A. Rosenblum

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