Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Early and Later Learning -- 1 Early Learning and Early Experience -- II Learning Early and Later in Life -- III A Comparative Approach -- IV Modifiability of Early Behaviour -- V The Study of Early Learning -- Chapter 2 Conditioning the Young -- I Chicks, Puppies and Other Infant Animals -- II Young Monkeys -- III Human Infants -- IV Some Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3 Classical Imprinting -- I The Initial Stages -- II The Testing of Imprinting -- III Effectiveness of Stimulus Figures -- IV Imprinting with Static Environment -- V Familiarity and Fear -- VI Sexual Imprinting -- VII Altricial Birds -- VIII Some Research Trends -- IX The Character of Imprinting -- Chapter 4 Imprinting and Human Behaviour -- I Imprinting in Precocial Mammals -- II Social Attachments in Altricial Mammals -- III Imprinting in Human Infants? -- IV Imprinting-like Human Early Learning -- Chapter 5 Reactivity and Docility -- I Habituation and Reactivity -- II Early Experience and Later Exploratory Behaviour -- III Perceptual Development -- IV Learning to Learn -- V Early Deprivation and Early Learning -- Chapter 6 Sensitive Periods -- I Development and Learning -- II The Concept of Critical Period -- III Some Findings and Views -- IV Some Issues for Debate -- Chapter 7 Imitation -- I Social Facilitation and Observational Learning in Young Animals -- II Imitative Behaviour in Children -- III Terminology -- IV Theoretical Approaches to Imitation -- Chapter 8 The Beginnings of Language -- I Early Learning to Speak -- II Different Types of Theoretical Approach -- III Operant Learning -- IV Other Traditional-type Accounts -- V Non-traditional Views -- VI Some Empirical Findings