| Description |
xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Prentice-Hall psychology series |
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Prentice-Hall psychology series.
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| Contents |
Section 1: The foundations of human behavior -- Part 1: The importance of understanding humans -- The meaning of human behavior -- The organic bases of behavior -- The growth and functioning of intelligence -- The cultural origins of the individual -- The meaning of human personality -- The meaning of character -- Section 2: Growth from conception to young adulthood -- The pre-memory age -- The pre-school years -- Early elementary childhood -- The middle years of childhood -- Early adolescence -- The adolescent-young adult -- Section 3: How to study children and youth -- Study of group situations -- Tools for child and adolescent study -- Know thyself |
| Summary |
"How a cell becomes a personality is the theme of this book. It is written for young people in the early stages of their preparation for teaching. To those who pause to look and reflect upon it no phenomenon in nature approaches the wonder of the growth of a human being from a single cell through ever-changing postures, proportions, capacities, interests, needs, circumstances. Babies Noah, Socrates, Michelangelo, Napoleon, Bach, Lincoln, Hitler, Einstein were very much alike. They cooed and howled in their cradles, walked at about age one. What factors cause one cell to develop into a thoughtful, creative, altruistic member of the human race and another to become a talented demon who terrifies the world is the problem posed, and not fully answered, by this book"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Notes |
Include index |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Child development.
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Developmental psychology.
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Genetic psychology.
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Human behavior.
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Jews -- Intellectual life.
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Renaissance -- Italy.
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| Author |
Lane, Mary B. (Mary Beauchamp), 1911-
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Traeger, Loann Lane
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| LC no. |
59008316 |
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