Infancy: Infant, Family and Society

Experienced author and researcher Alan Fogel draws heavily on infancy research that has been conducted in the past twenty years to provide an authoritative, scientifically-based account on infant development. The research results reported in this book, combined with readers' own experiences with infants, will lead them to a closer understanding of what babies are like. Fogel conveys the vitality of infants as developing human beings using a chronological apporach to infant development. Each chapter presents a multifaceted picture of babies in a particular age period. Similar topics are covered in each chapter, with an eye toward distinguishing the developmental uniqueness of babies at each age. In most chapters, these topics include motor and physical development, perceptual and cognitive develpment, and social and language development. Research is also presented on what infants actually do, think, and feel and on how they behave in everyday contexts.