Includes index

Bibliography: p. [280]-303

The development of affect in infancy and early childhood / Charles M. Super & Sara Harkness -- Cross-cultural assessment of neonatal behavior / Barry M. Lester & T. Berry Brazelton -- Culture and the language of socialization: parental speech / Ben G. Blount -- The development of picture perception in children from different cultures / Gustav Jahoda & Harry McGurk -- Ontogeny in the study of culture and cognition / Daniel A. Wagner -- Nutrition and preschool mental development / John W. Townsend, Robert E. Klein, Marc H. Irwin, William Owens, Charles Yarbrough, & Patricia L. Engle -- The validity of "cultural differences explanations" for cross-cultural variation in the rate of Piagetian cognitive development / Raphael M. Nyiti -- Animistic cognition: some cultural, conceptual, and methodological questions for Piagetian research / Tom Ciborowski & Douglass Price-Williams -- Cognitive aspects of informal education / Patricia Greenfield & Jean Lave

Influences of schooling on cognitive development / Harold W. Stevenson -- Cross-cultural comparisons of personality development in Mexico and the United States / Wayne H. Holtzman -- Moral development in comparative cultural perspective / Carolyn Pope Edwards

Written especially for this volume by experts in psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and education, these essays present the essence of particular programs of research: a look at emotional behavior during infancy; the significance of parental speech patterns in English- and Spanish- speaking families; research on the development of perception and memory among children; studies of the influence of nutrition on children; inquiries into the universality of Piaget's theories; articles on formal versus informal schooling; an investigation of moral development. These and other essays in Culture Perspectives on Child Development offer first-hand accounts of research that will be of interest to students and professionals in psychology and social anthropology