Individual development / Lawrence K. Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Lawrence K. (Lawrence Kelso), 1890-1968, author.

Series:

Doubleday papers in psychology ; 14.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

Doubleday papers in psychology ; 14

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52 pages).

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Co, 1955.

Summary:

In this paper, Lawrence K. Frank attempts to establish a frame of reference appropriate for the study of development. Heredity and the transactions the embryo enters into with its environment provide a biological parameter. Learnings, resulting both from the explicit enculturation efforts of the agents of society and the assimilation of the implicit norms made available by the accessible models, integrate with the biologically defined developmental progress of the organism to produce the individual as we see him in a particular situation at a particular time. Thus do we achieve a truly bio-social conception of the functioning personality of the individual. In his discussion of development, the author helps the reader to keep his orientation, without getting lost in a welter of details, by organizing the material into four categories: the internal environment, motor patterns and locomotion, communication through language, and cognitive and symbolic processes. In short, here we have a clarification of some of the major recent trends in theory and research which relate to understanding the individual as an organized complexity, an integration of theory and research findings into a unified perspective, and a presentation which establishes for the reader a frame of reference for the organization of the countless facts about development with which he will inevitably be confronted.

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

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OCLC:

1440341373