Developmental Plasticity: Behavioral and Biological Aspects of Variations in Development (Developmental psychology series)

Eugene S. Gollin

ISBN 10: 0122896203 / ISBN 13: 9780122896200

Published by Academic Press Inc, 1981

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• Title: Developmental Plasticity: Behavioral and Biological Aspects of Variations in Development (Developmental psychology series)
• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0122896203
• ISBN 13: 9780122896200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Nr Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Developmental Behavioral and Biological Aspects of Variations in Development explores the behavioral and biological aspects of variations in development from a variety of theoretical viewpoints and research contexts. Topics covered include evolution and genetic variability; sensory bases of infant perception; and learning and ethology. The infancy of human learning processes is also discussed, along with epistemology and developmental psychology. Comprised of eight chapters, this book opens with a review of the broad evolutionary landscape and the specific genetic mechanisms implicated in biological and behavioral development. It then describes the sensory apparatus available to neonatal human beings and analyzes the similarities and differences between ethological theory and learning theory. Developmental plasticity is also examined in interdisciplinary contexts, while the acquisition of behavior patterns during early postnatal development is explored from a traditional learning theory point of view. The remaining chapters focus on the role played by asymmetry in general and by cerebral asymmetry in particular in the generation of individuality; cultural and biological instances of plasticity in development; and the barriers separating epistemology from developmental psychology and psycholinguistics. This monograph will be a useful resource for developmental psychologists and other professionals devoted to child development and learning, as well as those in the fields of genetics and behavioral and biological sciences.