Understanding human development : dialogues with lifespan psychology / edited by Ursula M. Staudinger, Ulman Lindenberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staudinger, Ursula M.

Lindenberger, Ulman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

Understanding developmental processes in the individual as well as in aggregates of individuals is an important aim of many of the social and behavioral sciences.

This book presents a theoretical framework for this endeavor -- an architecture for the study of human development across different disciplines. This architecture articulates two major sources of human development (biology and culture) and posits three central developmental mechanisms (selection, optimization and compensation).

Contents:

1 Why Read Another Book on Human Development? Understanding Human Development Takes a Metatheory and Multiple Disciplines / Ursula M. Staudinger, Ulman Lindenberger 1

I The Overall Architecture of Lifespan Development 15

2 On the Incomplete Architecture of Human Ontogeny: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Foundation of Developmental Theory / Paul B. Baltes 17

3 Age Differences in Evolutionary Selection Benefits / Thomas B. L. Kirkwood 45

4 Age Differences in Cultural Efficiency: Secular Trends in Longevity / Heiner Maier, James W. Vaupel 59

II Basic Processes of Lifespan Development: Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC) 79

5 The Process of Successful Aging: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation / Margret M. Baltes (deceased January, 1999), Laura L. Carstensen 81

6 Intentionality and Time in Human Development and Aging: Compensation and Goal Adjustment in Changing Developmental Contexts / Jochen Brandtstadter, Klaus Rothermund 105

7 An Economic Perspective on Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC) / Jere R. Behrman 125

III A Lifespan View of Self and Personality 157

8 Completing the Psychobiological Architecture of Human Personality Development: Temperament, Character, and Coherence / C. Robert Cloninger 159

9 The Cumulative Continuity Model of Personality Development: Striking a Balance Between Continuity and Change in Personality Traits Across the Life Course / Brent W. Roberts, Avshalom Caspi 183

10 The Gain-Loss Dynamic in Lifespan Development: Implications for Change in Self and Personality During Old and Very Old Age / Jacqui Smith 215

IV A Lifespan View of Intelligence and Cognition 243

11 Enablement and Constraint / Henry M. Wellman 245

12 Interrelations of Aging, Knowledge, and Cognitive Performance / Timothy A. Salthouse 265

13 Formal Models of Age Differences in Task-Complexity Effects / Reinhold Kliegl, Ralf T. Krampe, Ulrich Mayr 289

V At the Frontiers of Lifespan Methodology 315

14 Structuring and Measuring Change Over the Life Span / John R. Nesselroade, Paolo Ghisletta 317

15 The Relationship Between the Structure of Interindividual and Intraindividual Variability: A Theoretical and Empirical Vindication of Developmental Systems Theory / Peter C. M. Molenaar, Hilde M. Huizenga, John R. Nesselroade 339

16 Combining Molecular and Quantitative Genetics: Decomposing the Architecture of Lifespan Development / Gerald E. McClearn 361

VI The Future of Lifespan Psychology: Comments from Related Fields and Neighboring Disciplines 381

17 The Future of Lifespan Developmental Psychology: Perspectives from Control Theory / Jutta Heckhausen 383

18 Without Gender, Without Self / Gisela Labouvie-Vief 401

19 Contributions of Lifespan Psychology to the Future Elaboration of Developmental Systems Theory / Richard M. Lerner, Elizabeth Dowling, Susanna Lara Roth 413

20 The Adaptive Toolbox and Lifespan Development: Common Questions? / Gerd Gigerenzer 423

21 The Nature-Nurture Problem Revisited / Wolf Singer 437

22 Secondary School as a Constraint for Adolescent Development / Olaf Koller, Jurgen Baumert, Kai U. Schnabel 449

23 The Sociology of the Life Course and Lifespan Psychology: Diverging or Converging Pathways? / Karl Ulrich Mayer 463

24 Philosophy or the Search for Anthropological Constants / Jurgen Mittelstrass 483.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1402071981

OCLC:

50227558