Infancy: Its Place in Human Development

by Jerome Kagan, Philip R. Zelazo, Richard B. Kearsley

Book Overview

Here is a major new work on human infancy written by one of the country's leading developmental psychologists and two distinguished colleagues. At its core is the long-awaited report of the authors' six-year study of infant daycare. Important in its own right, this experiment becomes the occasion for a wide-ranging discussion of cognitive and emotional processes in infancy, of the effects of early experience on later growth, and of the deep-seated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674452607
• ISBN13: 9780674452602
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.