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List of contents
Foreword: Myrtle McGraw's Nascent and Pioneering Use of Embryology to Understand Human Development -- Preface -- Reconsidering McGraw's Contribution to Developmental Psychology -- Insights and Blunders -- Introduction: My First Science Teacher -- Perspectives of Infancy and Early Childhood -- Professional and Personal Blunders in Child Development -- The Maturation Controversy -- Introduction: Johnny and Jimmy and the Maturation Controversy: Popularization, Misunderstanding, and Setting the Record Straight -- Later Development of Children Specially Trained During Infancy: Johnny and Jimmy at School Age -- Signals of Growth -- The Experimental Twins -- Infant Motor Development: A Study of the Effect of Special Exercises -- The Problem of Using Secondary Sources: Elkind's Blunders -- Coghill, Neuroembryology, and the Principles of Development -- Introduction: McGraw's Alternative to Gesell's Maturationist Theory -- The Function of Reflexes in the Behavior Development of Infants -- Behavior Development -- General Principles of Growth -- Individual Development -- Let Babies Be Our Teachers -- Psychobiology and the Interdisciplinary Study of Infant Development -- Introduction: The Developmental Psychobiology of Myrtle McGraw -- Basic Concepts and Procedures in a Study of Behavior Development -- Maturation of Behavior -- An Open Letter to Parents of Young Infants -- Challenges for Students of Infancy -- Epilogue: A Developmental Neurologist's "Homage"
About the author
Thomas C Dalton
Summary
This collection includes some of McGraw's most cogent work, including five previously unpublished essays that address misconceptions and clarify her principles of development. The editors document McGraw's little-known collaboration in the 1930s with John Dewey and several other notable scientists.
