Security of attachment and the social development of cognition:

Investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book links the domains of social and cognitive development and addresses issues which are of increasing interest to developmental psychologists. The origins of Bowlby's attachment theory; security of attachment - correlates and consequences; security of attachment and early cognitive development; is security of attatchment related to an infant's style of language acqusition?; symbolic play and security - a meeting of minds? security of attachment and maternal sensitivity within a tutoring context; security of attachment and the understanding of other minds; implications and applications.