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A Child's Mind: How Children Learn During the Critical Years from Birth to Age Five Years book cover

1st Edition

A Child's Mind How Children Learn During the Critical Years from Birth to Age Five Years

By Muriel Beadle Copyright 1970
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1970, parents and teachers were beginning to realise how very much earlier in life human intelligence develops than was previously thought. A child’s experience in its pre-school years largely determines its future academic progress; and environment and parental influence play a very great part in this. The author describes the steps by which children develop mentally... Read more

Preface and Preview.  1. Never Too Young to Learn  2. Biological Bases of Behavior  3. How Inherited Behavior Can be Modified  4. Learning to Love or to Hate  5. Babies Without Mothers  6. Critical Periods  7. The Anatomy of the Brain  8. The Biology of Learning  9. Motivation  10. Freud’s Image of Man  11. Acquiring a Sex Identity  12. The Development of Concepts  13. Perception  14. Language  15. Information Processing  16. The Measurement and Inheritance of Intelligence  17. How Environment Affects Intelligence  18. Culture and Caste  19. Acquiring Social-Group Identity  20. The Mark of Social Class  21. All Mice Are Not Created Equal.  References.  Index.

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Muriel Beadle

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