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Author Užgiris, Ina Č.

Title Assessment in infancy : ordinal scales of psychological development / Ina Č. Užgiris and J. McV. Hunt
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1975]

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 MELB  155.422 U99A  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Contents I. Theoretical background and reinterpretations -- 1. the concept of develppment -- 2. ordinal scales versus traditional scales -- 3. developmental sequence and chronological age -- 4. hierarchial organization : sources of sequential order and the issue of stages -- II. the investigation: developing the scales -- 5. the plan and the first phase: selecting the eliciting situations and the critical actions -- 6. phase II: reliability of assessment by sensorimotor stage with the second version of the instrument -- 7. phase III: inter-examiner reliability and inter-session stability of infant actions in the eliciting situations -- 8. revision of the instrument: the six series with evidence of their reliability and stability -- 9. the scalability of the six series and some inter correlations -- III. arranging the eliciting situations and recording the critical actions for the various steps in each of the scales -- 10. general directions and description of materials -- 11. scale I: the development of visual pursuit and the permanence of objects -- 12. scale II: the development of means for obtaining desired environmental events -- 13. scale IIIa, the development of vocal imitation, and scale IIIb, the development of gestural imitation -- 14. scale IV: the development of operational casualty -- 15. scale V: the construction of object relations in space -- scale VI: the development of schemes for relating to objects -- 17. record forms -- appendix a -- mean inter-observer agreement for actions in the eliciting situations -- appendix b -- mean inter-session stability of action in the eliciting situations
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254)
Subject Child development.
Child psychology.
Infant psychology.
Personality assessment.
Užgiris-Hunt Scales of Psychological Development in Infancy.
Child.
Infant.
Child Development.
Psychology, Child.
Psychological Tests.
Author Hunt, Joseph McVicker, 1906-1991, author
LC no. 74031461
ISBN 0252004655
0252060725
9780252004650
9780252060724