ABSTRACT
The study of infant development is one of the areas of developmental psychology in which there has been much recent research and interest. The proliferation of research studies in this area over the last five years or so is probably the result of recent advances in methods of data collection. It is far more difficult to get information from infants than it is from any other age-group within developmental psychology. There are also many topics which are of recent interest to ‘infant’ psychologists; this chapter covers just some of those topics, specifically those which have been of recent debate and contention.
