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Preface Foreword M. Brewster Smith Part I. Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Selected Perspectives: 1. Indigenization and beyond: the process and extent of psychology's growth as an international science John G. Adair 2. The continuing quest for psychological universals in categories, dimensions, taxonomies, and patterns of human behavior Walt J. Lonner 3. Circumnavigating the psychological globe: from yin and yang to starry, starry night Michael Harris Bond 4. The emerging global psychology movement: lessons from Arab psychology Uwe P. Gielen Part II. Development in the Family Context: 5. Organizing principles and processes from developmental science for culture and caregiving Marc H. Bornstein and Derya Gungor 6. A social change and human development perspective on the value of children Gisela Trommsdorff 7. Turkish family structure and functioning Bilge Ataca 8. Mothers' and fathers' child rearing practices and self-esteem in three generations of urban Turkish families Diane Sunar Part III. Culture and Self: 9. In search of the autonomous-relational self-construal Peter B. Smith 10. Culture and developmental pathways of relationship formation Heidi Keller and Robin Harwood 11. Microgenesis of narrative competence during preschool interactions: effects of the relational context Aylin C. Kuntay 12. Self-development, individuation, and culture: a psychoanalytic search Guler Okman Fisek Part IV. Social Change, Family, and Gender: 13. One or two pathways to modernity? A systematic comparison of Kagitcibasi's Model of Family Change and the Model of the Second Demographic Transition Bernhard Nauck 14. Living together in culturally-plural societies: understanding and managing acculturation and multiculturalism John W. Berry 15. Cultural continuity and discontinuity in Turkish migrant families: extending the Model of Family Change Karen Phalet and Derya Gungor 16. Values and attitudes of young people in urban Turkey: a further test of Schwartz's theory of values and Kagitcibasi's Model of Family Change Hale Bolak Boratav 17. Career development of professional women in Turkey Zeynep Aycan Part V. Induced Change: 18. Adapting intervention programs for use across societies: between valid transfer and cultural imposition Ype H. Poortinga 19. Design of culturally-appropriate developmental interventions Nazli Baydar 20. Designing, implementing, sustaining, and evaluating idiocultures for learning and development: the case study of the Fifth Dimension Michael Cole 21. Intervention programs to improve cognitive skills Sami Gulgoz 22. Pro-poor approaches to using technology for human development: monitoring and evaluation perspectives Daniel A. Wagner Epilogue T. S. Saraswathi.

Ayhan Aksu-Koç's empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense forms the basis for this original and important contribution to the current debate among psycholinguistics on the interrelationship between language and cognitive development. Turkish, in its grammar, makes a clear distinction between direct and indirect experiencing, separating personal observation of processes from both inference and narrative. This distinction thus provides an ideal means by which linguistic and nonlinguistic conceptual development can be observed. Dr Aksu-Koç has exploited this to full advantage in her broadly based longitudinal and cross-sectional study, conducted across a wide age range. The data are meticulously analyzed, and the theoretical implications for a neo-Piagetian paradigm are carefully considered.