Frontmatter -- Contents -- Section IV: Environmental conditions and the development of the individual -- 1. The responsive environment: interdisciplinary developmental issues -- A. Environmental ontogeny: A cognitive view -- B. Environmental reciprocity: A socio-emotional view -- C. Histories and futures: Aspects of a study of the child's relation to the land and the city -- 2. Effects of nutrition on development -- A. Role of nutrition in human development -- B. Malnutrition in infancy and intellectual development -- C. Protein malnutrition in monkeys -- 3. Effects of communication media on child development -- A. The means of instruction in the attainment of educational goals -- B. Cognitive effects of visual media -- C. Television and the development of social behavior -- Section V: Social organizations and the development of the individual -- 1. Variations in home-based early education: Language, play, and social development -- A. The construction and selection of environments: Design of the study -- B. Play: The elaboration of possibilities -- C. Language: The formation of discourse -- D. Social development: Enriching connections -- E. The Emperor's new clothes -- 2. Comparison of model preschool programs -- A. Remarks about curriculum implementation -- B. Short-term cognitive effects of eleven preschool models -- C. Dimensional analysis of preschool programs -- D. Comparing model preschool programs -- Section VI: Interaction in social groups and the development of the individual -- 1. Social interaction and personality development -- A. Social perspective-taking training: empathy and role-taking ability of preschool children -- B. Levels and patterns of social engagement and disengagement from adolescence to middle adulthood -- C. Education as an aid to adaptation in the adult years -- D. Interaction of personality, SES, and social participation in old age -- E. The generation gap: imagination or reality -- F. Affluence, reciprocity and solidary bonds -- 2. Variations in infant-caretaker interactions -- A. Family interaction in the newborn period: Some findings, some observations, and some unresolved issues -- B. The relation of infant's temperament and mother's psychopathology to interactions in early infancy -- C. Mother-infant interaction, attachment, and mother's psychopathology -- D. Cohort effects and apparent secular trends in infant research -- 3. Sibling influences on the development of the individual -- A. Sibling position, sex of child, and maternal involvement -- B. On the extent of sibling influence -- C. Sibling interaction and cognitive development -- D. Social class, family size, and cognitive performance -- E. The assessment of stability and change in peer interaction of normal hearing and deaf preschool children -- Bibliography -- Index to Part II