Development in infancy: An introduction

by Michael E. Lamb

This is a revision of our comprehensive text in infant development, intended for infant and child development courses at the junior/senior level. The authors have updated material throughout the text. In addition, they have streamlined the organization by rewriting the introducing and concluding chapters. Organizational changes include: 1) cognitive development and intelligence now treated in one chapter, 2) new chapter on representation and play, and 3) temperament and emotions now combined in one chapter.

Genres: Psychology

274 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences, Cambridge University.

Reviews

[Amy]

The more I read this text the more I asked do these researchers even LIKE studying infants?!? I swear just about every single chapter (or several times in a chapter) they discussed how difficult infants are to study. I think we all inherently understand that infants cannot articulate their understanding of their environment say it once and move on!

It covered EVERYTHING you could ever ask about infancy without being a PhD in any one specific area but it sure felt like that was the goal per chapter. That and did we mention infants don't make good test subjects?!? Seriously we got it!