Concepts and theories of human development / Richard M. Lerner.

Author
Lerner, Richard M. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
3rd ed.
Published/​Created
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, [2002], ©2002.
Description
xxv, 613 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    Restrictions note
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-589) and indexes.
    Contents
    • 1. Human Development: Facts or Theory?
    • 2. Historical Roots of Human Development: Concepts and Theories
    • 3. Philosophical Models of Development
    • 4. The Nature - Nurture Controversy: Implications of the Question How?
    • 5. The Continuity-Discontinuity Issue
    • 6. Resolving the Nature - Nurture Controversy : T. C. Schneirla and the Concept of Levels of Integration
    • 7. Developmental Systems Theories
    • 8. Developmental Systems Theory: The Sample Case of Developmental Contextualism
    • 9. Life-Span, Action Theory, Life-Course, and Bioecological Perspectives
    • 10. Nature Approaches to Human Development: Behavioral Genetics
    • 11. Nature Approaches to Development: The Sample Case of Intelligence and the Work of Sir Cyril Burt and Arthur Jensen
    • 12. Nature Approaches to Development: Konrad Lorenz and the Concept of "Instinct"
    • 13. Nature Approaches to Development: Sociobiology
    • 14. Cognition and Development: From Neo-Nativism to Developmental Systems --
    • 15. Stage Theories of Development
    • 16. The Different Approach
    • 17. The Ipsative Approach to Development
    • 18. Methodological Issues in the Study of Human Development
    • 19. Applied Developmental Science.
    ISBN
    0805827986 (acid-free paper)
    LCCN
    2001040282
    OCLC
    47117741
    RCP
    C - S
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