1 Entering a New Era in the Search for Developmental Continuities.- New Views of Discontinuities and Continuities.- References.- I Current Research Perspectives Related to the Continuity of Early Experience.- 2 Continuity and Change in the Opening Years of Life.- 3 Continuities and Discontinuities in Socioemotional Development: Empirical and Conceptual Perspectives.- 4 Age-related Aspects of Experience Effects upon Brain Structure.- II Studies of Discontinuities and Developmental Transitions.- 5 Detecting Developmental Discontinuities: Methods and Measurement.- 6 Developmental Continuities and Discontinuities in a Form of Familial Dyslexia.- 7 The Study of Transitions: Conceptual and Methodological Issues.- 8 Self-produced locomotion: an organizer of emotional, Cognitive, and social development in infancy.- 9 Effects of Hospitalization On Early Child Development.- III Studies of Continuities.- 10 The Development of Representation from 10 to 28 Months: Differential Stability of Language and Symbolic Play.- 11 Developmental Transformations in Mastery Motivation: Measurement and Validation.- 12 The Development of Cerebral Specialization In Infants: Electrophysiological and Behavioral Studies.- 13 Continuity and change in socioemotional development during the second year.- 14 Continuities and Change in Early Emotional Life: Maternal Perceptions of Surprise, Fear, and Anger.- 15 Early Experience Effects: Evidence for Continuity?.- IV Cross-Disciplinary Strategies in Searching for Continuities.- 16 Mathematical-statistical model building in analysis of Developmental data.- 17 Continuity of Personality: A Genetic Perspective.