The Life Cycle : Readings in Human Development / Laurence D. Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinberg, Laurence D., author.

Contributor:

Mandelbaum, Lynn J.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1981]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Provides the student of human development with a collection of empirical and theoretical articles. Examines each stage of life from infancy through late adulthood as a separate developmental cycle.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Infancy

Mastery and Competencies

1. Competent Newborns / Bower, Tom

2. Piaget's Observations as a Source of Hypotheses Concerning Motivation / McVicker Hunt, J.

Identity and the Self

3. Mirror-Image Stimulation and Self-Recognition in Infancy / Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne / Lewis, Michael

4. Characteristics of the Individual Child's Behavioral Responses to the Environment / Chess, Stella / Thomas, Alexander / Birch, Herbert

Relations with Others

5. Attachment, Exploration, and Separation: Illustrated by the Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation / Salter Ainsworth, Mary D. / Bell, Silvia M.

6. Growth of Social Play with Peers during the Second Year of Life / Eckerman, Carol O. / Whatley, Judith L. / Kutz, Stuart L.

Part II: Childhood

7. The Role of Play in Cognitive Development / Sutton-Smith, Brian

8. A Structural-Developmental Analysis of Levels of Role-taking in Middle Childhood / Selman, Robert L. / Byrne, Diane F.

9. The Process of Learning Parental and Sex-Role Identification / Lynn, David B.

10. Development of a Sense of Self-Identity in Children / Guardo, Carol J. / Bohan, Janis Beebe

11. Peer Interaction and the Behavioral Development of the Individual Child / Hartup, Willard W.

12. The Aftermath of Divorce / Hetherington, E. Mavis / Cox, Martha / Cox, Roger

Part III: Adolescence

13. Understanding the Young Adolescent / Elkind, David

14. Intrapsychic versus Cultural Explanations of the "Fear of Success" Motive / Monahan, Lynn / Kuhn, Deanna / Shaver, Phillip

15. The Problem of Ego Identity / Erikson, Erik H.

16. Disturbance in the Self- Image at Adolescence / Simmons, Roberta G. / Rosenberg, Florence / Rosenberg, Morris

17. Changes in Family Relations at Puberty / Steinberg, Laurence D.

18. Breakups before Marriage: The End of 103 Affairs / Hill, Charles T. / Rubin, Zick / Peplau, Letitia Anne

Part IV: Adulthood

19. Transition to Parenthood / Rossi, Alice S.

20. Work and Its Meaning / Breslow Rubin, Lillian

21. The Subjective Experience of Middle Age / Neugarten, Bernice L. / Datan, Nancy

22. The Midlife Transition: A Period in Adult Psychosocial Development / Levinson, Daniel J.

23. Marital Satisfaction over the Family Life Cycle / Rollins, Boyd C. / Feldman, Harold

24. Primary Friends and Kin: A Study of the Associations of Middle-Class Couples / Babchuk, Nicholas

Part V: Late Adulthood

25. The Role of Grandparenthood / Nye, Ivan F. / Berardo, Felix M.

26. Adjustment to Loss of Job at Retirement / Atchley, Robert C.

27. Personality and Patterns of Aging / Havighurst, Robert J.

28. The Life Review: An Interpretation of Reminiscence in the Aged / Butler, Robert N.

Late Adulthood

29. Interaction and Adaptation: Intimacy as a Critical Variable / Lowenthal, Marjorie Fiske / Haven, Clayton

30. The Meaning of Friendship in Widowhood / Znaniecki Lopata, Helena

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89520-8

OCLC:

1100444643