Infancy: The Developing Child
Tiffany Field
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Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Until very recently, almost all books on infancy assumed basic infant immaturity. Remarkably, as Tiffany Field shows in her survey of recent research, investigators are discovering that infants possess sophisticated perceptual skills, such as hearing, even before birth. Newborns can sense touch and motion, discriminate tastes and smells, recognize their mother's voice, and imitate facial expressions. In fact, the newborn is an active learner, looking, reaching, sucking, and grimacing from its first moments in its new environment.
Field provides a readable account of our current knowledge about infant development. She looks at the emergence of sensorimotor and cognitive skills, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674452633
SKU
KRF0000736
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99-1
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