The second year is that daunting time when the previously docile
and adorable infant inevitably develops a mind of her own. In this
book, Jerome Kagan takes a provocative look at the mental
developments underlying the startling transitions in the child's
second year.
It is Kagan's premise that the roots of self-awareness emerge in
the second half of the second year of life. He also suggests that
the underlying cause may be more biological than social. His book
develops these ideas through a series of brilliant observations on
the behavior of two-year-olds.
Kagan charts, for example, the emerging sense of standards (the
possibility of right and wrong) that reveals itself positively when
the child suddenly begins to smile after a successful action, and
negatively when the child starts to become concerned about flaws in
objects and mistakes in her own behavior. When this concern with
standards spreads to the child's irresistible impulse to imitate
adults, Kagan observes a remarkable phenomenon: the
twenty-month-old child suddenly begins to show signs of distress
before she even tries to imitate an action that is beyond her
ability. Kagan argues that this distress could arise only from the
child's growing sense of what she can and can't do--her awareness
of herself.
General
Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 1981 |
First published: |
February 1981 |
Authors: |
Jerome Kagan
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
171 |
Edition: |
Reprint 2014 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-18139-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Other branches of medicine >
Clinical psychology >
Psychotherapy
|
LSN: |
0-674-18139-5 |
Barcode: |
9780674181397 |
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