Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that any day care service that has more than three infants per adult (and that includes most) is inadequate. "Too often," she warns, "the parents' main questions are simply how close to home is it and how much does it cost." But of day care as such, Cornell Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner says categorically, "There is no hard evidence that day care has a negative effect...
...only the importance of such needs but the damage that can occur when they go unanswered. Yet even these blessings of the latest orthodoxy can be overdone. "We are learning that everything will have an impact on an infant, but we still need to know exactly what happens," cautions Psychologist Rose Caron of George Washington University's Infant Research Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md. "It's conceivable that a child's competency might be diminished because of too much early stimulation...
...University of Texas' new Children's Research Center to U.C.L.A.'s Child Study Laboratory, there is hardly a major university without teams of researchers poking and prodding babies. The number of studies of infant cognition has tripled in the past five years, according to Psychologist Richard Held of M.I.T. A conference of experts in Austin last year heard more than 200 research papers ranging from "Sleep-Wake Transitions and Infant
...babies was that they could not talk,* could not tell what they saw or thought; the consequence was a widespread belief that they saw little and thought less. But that belief was based primarily on adults' dim recollections of their past. As early as the 1950s, a few psychologists were searching for laboratory methods to discover what babies could learn. Case Western Reserve Psychologist Robert Fantz made an important breakthrough in 1958 by demonstrating that babies' fascination with novelty could be turned into a form of silent speech. Specifically, Fantz watched infants move their eyes when he showed...
Once the basic approach was discovered, a whole world of previously untried research opened up; new technology made it possible to devise tests that would have been unimaginable a generation earlier. At the most rudimentary level, the videotape machine enables a psychologist to record a baby's wriggling and demonstrate that it often moves in rhythm with its mother's voice. At the most complex levels, surgeons at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago can diagnose prenatal hydrocephalus (a brain-damaging excess of cerebrospinal fluid) in a fetus, then introduce a plastic tube into the mother...