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Theories of developmental psychology / Patricia H. Miller.
LIBRA BF713 .M55 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Patricia H.
- Series:
- Series of books in psychology
- Series of books in psychology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Developmental psychology--Philosophy.
- Developmental psychology.
- Child psychology--Philosophy.
- Child psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.H. Freeman, [1989]
- Contents:
- What Is a Theory?
- What Is a Developmental Theory?
- Of What Value is a Developmental Theory?
- What Main Issues of Developmental Psychology Do Theories Address?
- 1 Piaget's Cognitive-Stage Theory and the Neo-Piagetians
- Biographical Sketch
- General Orientation to the Theory
- Description of the Stages
- Memory
- Mechanisms of Development
- Position on Developmental Issues
- Applications
- Evaluation of the Theory
- Piaget's Own Modifications of His Theory
- The Neo-Piagetians
- 2 Frued's and Erikson's Psychoanalytic Theories
- Freud
- Contemporary Research on Relationships
- Erickson
- Contemporary Eriksonian Research
- 3 Social-Learning Theory
- History of the Theory
- Examples of Developmental Research: Moral Judgments and Gender Roles
- Social Learning Theory Today
- 4 Information-Processing Theory
- Major Developmental Approaches
- 5 Ethiology and Other Evolutionary Theories
- Contributions to Human Developmental Psychology
- 6 Gibson's Ecological Perceptual Theory of Development
- Developmental Trends
- What Infants Learn About
- 7 Vygotsky and the Socioculturalists
- Examples of Vygotskian and Other Sociocultural Research
- Concluding Comments
- 8 Contemporary Mini-Theories and Emerging Theories
- The Theory Theory
- Modularity Nativism
- Developmental Neuroscience
- Dynamic-Systems Theory
- Developing-Person-in-Context
- Critical Psychology: Are Theories of Development Gendered?
- Concluding Thoughts
- 9 Reflections
- Developmental Issues Revisited
- A Need for Better Theoretical Accounts of Mechanisms of Development
- Historical Progress of Developmental Theories
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages 439-469.
- ISBN:
- 0716720027
- 0716720019
- OCLC:
- 18740641
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