[Review of The First Two Years; Anger in Young Children; Psychology of Infancy and Early Childhood; Mental Measurement of Pre-School Children

Abstract

Reviews 5 books on early childhood development. M. M. Shirley's book, The First Two Years, , argues that motor skill is a talent composed of a neuromuscular tendency toward good gross motor coordination plus an interest in motor pursuits. In Anger in Young Children , F. L. Goodenough presents a picture of the concomitants of anger in young children. A. Hart Arlitt has enlarged her Psychology of Infancy and Early Childhood in this second edition. It is an excellent text for courses in child psychology or child training for those who have had no previous psychology. R. Stutsman's manual on the Merrill-Palmer pre-school scale of mental tests provides a valuable addition to clinic libraries and is a useful tool for clinicians. M. M. Reynolds' Negativism of Pre-School Children finds that the peak of negativism occurs at about two years of age, which is an interesting corollary to Goodenough's findings that anger occurs more frequently at that age. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)