About this Book

This volume provides an authoritative survey of all the major theories of infant development.

• An authoritative survey of major theoretical issues in infant development.
• Written by leading scholars in the field of infancy.
• Each chapter either presents a distinct theoretical approach to infant development or reviews contrasting theories in a specific subfield.
• Pays particular attention to current theoretical controversies.
• Contributors include Eugene Goldfield, Andy Meltzoff, Marinus van Ijzendoorn, Mark Johnson and Annette Karmiloff-Smith, among others.