Psychology of Infancy and Early Childhood

Abstract

DR. ARLITIS book was first published in 1928. ThisSfroird edition takes account of many res Etoies since that date. It provides a useful summary and discussion of recent work on such topics as the innate equipment of the infant, reflexes and random activities, habit, perceptual learning and memory. It is, however, a very uneven book and on certain matters, such as emotional and sexual development, it shares the muddled thinking apparent in many American and some English text-books. The general bias is ‘behaviouristic’ in the narrow Watsonian sense. There is so little understanding of psychical functions as such that it is doubtful whether the book is rightly entitled “Child Psychology”.

Psychology of Infancy and Early Childhood

By Prof. Ada Hart Arlitt. (McGraw-Hill Home Economics Series.) Third edition. Pp. xiii + 475. (New York and London. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1946.) 19s.