Advances in child development and behavior. Volume 18 / edited by Hayne W. Reese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reese, Hayne Waring, 1931-

Series:

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Advances in child development and behavior ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Children--Conduct of life.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

ADV IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT &BEHAVIOR V18

Contents:

Front Cover; Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 18; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. The Development of Verbal Communicative Skills in Children; I. Introduction; II. Two Early Approaches to Communicative Development: Piaget and Vygotsky; III. Representative Research Concerning the Development of Communicative Skills; IV. Toward a Model of Communicative Development; V. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 2. Auditory Feedback and Speech Development; I. Introduction; II. Methodological Issues; III. The Logic of Feedback Studies

IV. Feedback Research with ChildrenV. Analog Experiments; VI. Other Manipulations of Auditory Feedback; VII. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Body Size of Infants and Children around the World in Relation to Socioeconomic Status; I. Purpose and Method; II. Socioeconomic Comparisons for Body Weight; III. Socioeconomic Comparisons for Stature; IV. Socioeconomic Comparisons for Head, Trunk, and Limbs; V. Summary; References; Chapter 4. Human Sexual Dimorphism: Its Cost and Benefit; I. Introduction; II. Sex Ratios; III. Genetic Contribution to Human Sexual Dimorphism

IV. Hormonal Contribution to Human Sexual DimorphismV. Intellectual, Neurological, and Behavioral Disorders: Male Preponderance; VI. The Benefit; VII. Conclusion; References; Chapter 5. Symposium on Research Programs: Rational Alternatives to Kuhn's Analysis of Scientific Progress; Introductory Remarks; Text; Chapter 6. World Views and Their Influence on Psychological Theory and Research: Kuhn-Lakatos-Laudan; I. Demarcationist Strategies in Science; II. Organismic and Mechanistic Scientific Research Programs; III. World Views and Scientific Research Programs

IV. An Organismic-Mechanistic Compromise?V. Conclusions; References; Chapter 7. The History of the Psychology of Learning as a Rational Process: Lakatos versus Kuhn; I. Introduction; II. Lakatos' Analysis versus Kuhn's; III. Applications to Physics; IV. Applications to Psychology; V. Conclusions; References; Chapter 8. Functionalist and Structuralist Research Programs in Developmental Psychology: Incommensurability or Synthesis?; I. Introduction; II. The Demise of Logical Positivism; III. Research Programs and Revolutions in Developmental Psychology; References

Chapter 9. In Defense of Kuhn: A Discussion of His DetractorsText; References; Chapter 10. Comments on Beilin's Epistemology and Palermo's Defense of Kuhn; Text; References; Chapter 11. From Kuhn to Lakatos to Laudan; I. Kuhn; II. Lakatos; III. Laudan; IV. History and Sociology; Chapter 12. Overton's and Palermo's Relativism: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back; I. Overton; II. Palermo; References; Author Index; Subject Index; Contents of Previous Volumes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-44249-6

9786611442491

0-08-056590-5

OCLC:

476164806