A child's mind : how children learn during the critical years from birth to age five /
Muriel Beadle ; illustrated by E. John Pfiffner.
- [First edition.]
- xxiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: pages [269]-283 and index.
Never too young to learn -- Biological bases of behavior -- How inherited behavior can be modified -- Learning to love or to hate -- Babies without mothers -- Critical periods -- The anatomy of the brain -- The biology of learning --Motivation -- Freud's image of man -- Acquiring a sex identity -- The development of concepts -- Perception -- Language -- Information processing -- The measurement and inheritance of intelligence -- How environment affects intelligence -- Culture and caste -- Acquiring social-group identity -- The mark of social class -- All mice are not created equal.