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This volume contains a sample of articles on developmental psychology that have appeared in Soviet psychology over the past 15 years. The articles represent a much great time span of developmental psychology in the Soviet Union, beginning wth classic papers by Denisova and Figurin published in the mid-1920s.
List of contents
Soviet Developmental Psychology: Selections from Soviet Psychology. Experiemental Reflexological Research on the New Born. Experimental Reflexological Study of Early Dsicriminative Reflexes in Infancy. A Child's Speech Responses and the Social Environment. The Variability of Mental Functions as the Child Develops (Based on a Comparative Study of Twins). Play and Its Role in the Mental Development of the Child. The Development of Voluntary Memory in Preschool-age Children. Words as Conditioned Inhibitors in Infants During the First Three Years of Life. Conditions for the Formation of the Simplest Volutary Actions in Very Young Children. Perception and Naming of Color in Early Childhood. The Development of Associations in Very Young Children. Certain Physciological Mechanisms in the Initial Development of the Mental Life of the Child. The Formation and Development of Perception Activity. On the Development of Proper Pronunciation in Children one and Half to Three Years Old. The Development in Prschool-age Children of the Ability to Analyze Words by Their Sounds. Echolalia as a Stage in the Formation of the Second-Signal System. Stimuli Evoking Positive Emotions in Infants in the First Months of Life. Comparative Analysis of the Activity of the Preschool Child with Real Objects and Their Schematic Representations. Mastery of the Syllabic Composition of Words at an Early Age. A Study of the Influence of Sociohistorical Conditions on Child Development (Comparitive Investigation, 1929 and 1966). The Emergence of Perceptual Actions. Some Problems in Learning Russian as a Foreign Language (Essays on Psycholinguistics). Causes of Children's Word Invention (A Psychological Model of the Genesis of the Syntactically Structured Verbal Utterance). Toward the Problem of Stages in the Mental Development of the Child. Acquisition of the Communicative Function of Language by Schoolchildren. Babbling in the Hearing Child. An Experimental Study of the Planning Function of Thinking in Young Schoolchildren
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Michael Cole
