Childhood, Hereditary and mental development / S.K Awasthi

1.Basic facts
2.Exercise of the sense-organs
3.Parenting and family Atmosphere
4.Emotions,learning and language
5.Hereditary and mental growth
6.Homesickness and schooling
7.Family therapy
8.Emotions and morals
9.Psychical development and mental communities.
10.Mental Functions
11.Movements and imitation
12.Child's games and power of observation.
13.Attention, memory and emotions

A mental functions refers always to some actually or possibly observable events in behavior, not to any mythical entities beneath behavior. Wide or narrow in its scope, short or long in the series of operation which it comprises, recording existing powers or prophesying their existence under given conditions, emphasizing the particular situations to which the man can respond in a certain way or leaving them unspecified, telling what he will do or telling what he will be satisfied by- in every case a mental function concerns some history or prophecy of behavior.