Continuities and Discontinuities in Development

"Continuities and Discontinuities in Development" was the theme for the Second Biennial DPRG Retreat, a three-day meeting held at Estes Park, Colorado, in June 1982. The meeting was sponsored by the Devel opmental Psychobiology Research Group (DPRG) of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The DPRG is a group of individuals conducting research in many areas of develop ment who meet on a regular basis to present and discuss their work and receive feedback and encouragement. In 1974, this group was awarded an endowment fund by the Grant Foundation, the aims of which were to facilitate the research of young investigators, to encourage new re search, and to provide seed money for collaborative ventures. Much of the work reported in this volume and in the earlier volume from the First DPRG Retreat is the result of that support. In addition to the work of the members of the DPRG, a select group of guests was invited to participate in the meeting and contribute to this volume. The chapters by William Greenough, Jerome Kagan, and Michael Rutter result from the participation of these scholars at the retreat. We would like to acknowledge the support of a number of indi viduals who have been instrumental in supporting the DPRG as a whole, as well as those who contributed directly to the Second Biennial Retreat and to the volume.

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1 Entering a New Era in the Search for Developmental Continuities.- New Views of Discontinuities and Continuities.- References.- I Current Research Perspectives Related to the Continuity of Early Experience.- 2 Continuity and Change in the Opening Years of Life.- 3 Continuities and Discontinuities in Socioemotional Development: Empirical and Conceptual Perspectives.- 4 Age-related Aspects of Experience Effects upon Brain Structure.- II Studies of Discontinuities and Developmental Transitions.- 5 Detecting Developmental Discontinuities: Methods and Measurement.- 6 Developmental Continuities and Discontinuities in a Form of Familial Dyslexia.- 7 The Study of Transitions: Conceptual and Methodological Issues.- 8 Self-produced locomotion: an organizer of emotional, Cognitive, and social development in infancy.- 9 Effects of Hospitalization On Early Child Development.- III Studies of Continuities.- 10 The Development of Representation from 10 to 28 Months: Differential Stability of Language and Symbolic Play.- 11 Developmental Transformations in Mastery Motivation: Measurement and Validation.- 12 The Development of Cerebral Specialization In Infants: Electrophysiological and Behavioral Studies.- 13 Continuity and change in socioemotional development during the second year.- 14 Continuities and Change in Early Emotional Life: Maternal Perceptions of Surprise, Fear, and Anger.- 15 Early Experience Effects: Evidence for Continuity?.- IV Cross-Disciplinary Strategies in Searching for Continuities.- 16 Mathematical-statistical model building in analysis of Developmental data.- 17 Continuity of Personality: A Genetic Perspective.