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Discusses 3 aspects of the relationship between the infant and the world: the macrosystem, or the world's view of the infant; the microsystem of family, which concerns the infant's impact on the world; and the infant's processing of the world. Research on the history of childrearing is presented to illustrate how the current North American world view of the infant has contributed to the acceptance of erroneous theories of parent–infant bonding. The impact of new parenthood on women and men is reviewed, and ways in which infants process and make sense of the world are discussed. Research on infant visual habituation is reviewed with special attention to the prediction of childhood intelligence test scores from infant posthabituation preferences for novelty. (French abstract) (83 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
