Certainly among psychologists the term maturation has acquired a somewhat specific
meaning, referring essentially to changes in behavior as a result of anatomical or …

THE Normal Child Development Clinic is part of a research program of the Neurological
Institute for the study of the correlation of the development of the brain with the development …

Ontogeny is the life history or development of an individual organism. This chapter will
concern itself mainly with the first two postnatal years of the human life cycle and with that …

Maturation is a term which has recently come to the fore in the literature of child psychology.
It is not a precise and altogether indispensable term, but it has come into usage as an offset …

The behavior of the infant is obedient to pattern. Even the random movements of the month-
old child are not utterly fortuitous. Normative studies of both premature and postmature …

This chapter is written in an effort to deal with these questions: When does behavior begin?
How does behavior develop during the early weeks and months of life? The material …

A general consideration of the growth of behavior discussed after the manner of the
anatomist who considers the growth of structure. Harvard Book List (edited) 1949# 524 …

The tendency among psychologists has been to explain complex behavior as a linking
together of the simple reflexes which are present in the new-born child. Recently it has been …

An orientational volume giving the theoretical and practical implications growing out of the
author's detailed studies of growth processes in children during the first ten years of life …

The concern of developmental psychology is directed toward un derstanding the changes
which occur in behavior as the individual grows to maturity. Scientists with a bias for either a …