Introduction

John Sants

1-14

The child in psychology

John Sants

15-45

Neurological development and the growth of psychological functions

Colwyn Trevarthen

46-95

The relevance of ethology

P. B. Slater

96-119

Some methodological issues in developmental research

Harry McGurk

120-141

Piagetian perspectives

Hans Furth

142-168

Two decades of research into early language

Roger Goodwin

169-217

The nature of educational competence

J. G. Wallace

218-252

The significance of sex differences in developmental psychology

John M. Archer, Barbara Lloyd

253-289

Universality and plasticity, ontogeny and phylogeny

the resonance between culture and cognitive development

Neil Warren

290-326

Society's cradle

an anthropological perspective on the socialisation of cognition

Billie J. Isbell, Lauris McKee

327-364

Developmental psychology and society

John Sants

365-384