Becoming A Person

Martin Woodhead

1: First Relationships; Introduction; 1: Early Social Development; 2: Infant–Mother Attachment and Social Development: ‘Socialisation' as a Product of Reciprocal Responsiveness to Signals; 3: The Development of Affect in Infancy and Early Childhood; 4: The Father's Role in the Neonatal Period; 2: The Process of Development; Introduction; 5: Cognitive Foundations and Social Functions of Imitation, and Intermodal Representation in Infancy; 6: The Parental Frame; 7: The Effects of Postnatal Depression on Mother–Infant Relations and Infant Development; 8: The Social Context of Development; 3: Relationships and Early Learning; Introduction; 9: The Language of the Mother–Child Relationship; 10: A Cultural Perspective on the Transition From Prelinguistic to Linguistic Communication; 11: Culture and Early Social Interactions; 12: Nature and Uses of Immaturity; 4: The Construction of Identity; Introduction; 13: The Reconstruction of Social Knowledge in the Transition from Sensorimotor to Conceptual Activity: The Gender System; 14: Children Caring for Babies: Age and Sex Differences in Response to Infant Signals and to the Social Context; 15: The Self-Building Potential of Pretend Play, or ‘I Got a Fish, All by Myself