Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 598 g
Reihe: Evolutionary Psychology
Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 598 g
Reihe: Evolutionary Psychology
ISBN: 978-3-030-76002-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Theoretical Underpinnings
- Brain and Cognitive Development
- Social/Emotional Development
- Life and Death
Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy sheds new light on our understanding of the human brain andthe environments responsible for shaping the brain during early stages of development. This book will be of interest to evolutionary psychologists and developmental psychologists, biologists, and anthropologists, as well as scholars more broadly interested in infancy.
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I. Theoretical Underpinnings.- 1. Preface/Introduction: Infancy through the lens of evolutionary developmental psychology.- 2. Human evolution and the neotenous infant.- 3. Cultures of infancy (and EEA).- 4. Primate infants.- II. Brain and Cognitive Development.- 5. Core knowledge.- 6. Social cognition.- 7. Social/moral cognition in young infants.- 8. Infant brain development, plasticity, and recovery of function.- 9. Music and language acquisition.- III. Social/Emotional Development.- 10. Infant emotions.- 11. Jealousy and the Biobehavioral Shift: Why the Terrible Twos are Terrible.- 12. Maternal caregiving and mother-to-infant attachment: Adaptations to ancestral infants’ three-year period of dependence on breast milk.- 13. Touch/skin-to-skin contact.- 14. Attachment.- 15. Father-infant attachment relationships.- IV. Life and Death.- 16. Prenatal effects (predictive adaptive responses).- 17. Human birth.- 18. Infanticide/abandonment.- 19. Infant mortality.- 20. Mortality in relation to nutrition.