A Handbook of Child Psychology [Review of the book A handbook of child psychology. Second edition, revised

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Reviews the revised second edition of A Handbook of Child Psychology , edited by Carl Murchison (1933). Revision is a modest term--the book is really a new work. While there are only 24 papers as compared with 22 in the first edition, there is about 45 per cent more type-page area. The present volume is arranged in a much more satisfactory manner than the earlier one with five logically succeeding parts: methods, pre-natal development, post-natal development, factors modifying behavior, and studies of special groups. Eleven of the papers are on topics not considered in the first edition: pre-natal behavior in the vertebrate phyla; neonates; the maturation and patterning of behavior; locomotor and visual-manual functions; emotion; mental growth; sex differences; speech pathology; development and training of the "physiological appetites"; children with difficulties of adjustment; and adolescents. Papers on methodology, language, social behavior, environmental forces, learning, morals, philosophies, order of birth, eidetic imagery, and children with special gifts and deficiencies are by the same authors as in the first edition. The papers in this edition are of more even quality, and they are better quantitatively and qualitatively than those in the first edition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)