| Description |
xxv, 613 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Human Development: Facts or Theory? -- 2. Historical Roots of Human Development: Concepts and Theories -- 3. Philosophical Models of Development -- 4. The Nature - Nurture Controversy: Implications of the Question How? -- 5. The Continuity-Discontinuity Issue -- 6. Resolving the Nature - Nurture Controversy : T. C. Schneirla and the Concept of Levels of Integration -- 7. Developmental Systems Theories -- 8. Developmental Systems Theory: The Sample Case of Developmental Contextualism -- 9. Life-Span, Action Theory, Life-Course, and Bioecological Perspectives -- 10. Nature Approaches to Human Development: Behavioral Genetics -- 11. Nature Approaches to Development: The Sample Case of Intelligence and the Work of Sir Cyril Burt and Arthur Jensen -- 12. Nature Approaches to Development: Konrad Lorenz and the Concept of "Instinct" -- 13. Nature Approaches to Development: Sociobiology -- 14. Cognition and Development: From Neo-Nativism to Developmental Systems -- 15. Stage Theories of Development -- 16. The Different Approach -- 17. The Ipsative Approach to Development -- 18. Methodological Issues in the Study of Human Development -- 19. Applied Developmental Science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-589) and indexes |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection) |
| Subject |
Developmental psychology.
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Child Development.
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Personality Development.
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Psychology, Child.
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| Author |
NetLibrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2001040282 |
| ISBN |
0805827986 acid-free paper |
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