Infant psychology

Author: Pang Lijuan
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Publish Date: 2003-08-07
Features: In this book, the editors discuss in-depth and detail the development of infant brain morphology and function, the patterns of motor development and their organizational role in psychological development, the development of infants' perceptual abilities, attention abilities, memory abilities, encoding and processing abilities, early temperament of infants and its impact on parent-child interaction and psychological development, early emotional expressions, differentiation, and socialization of infants, the emergence and development of infant self-awareness, the development and characteristics of parent-child and peer interactions, as well as issues such as mother-infant interaction and father-infant interaction. Additionally, the editors analyze and introduce various specialized techniques, methods, and commonly used assessment scales for infant psychology research, considering the unique characteristics of infants as subjects—such as their weaker language abilities, difficulty in understanding experimental instructions, inability to accurately report their responses and internal feelings in words, short waking periods, easily distracted attention, and fluctuating psychological states.