Theories of development : concepts and applications /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Prentice Hall,
[2000]
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Early theories: preformationism, Locke, and Rousseau
- Gesell's maturational theory
- Ethological theories: Darwin, Lorenz and Tinbergen, and Bowlby and Ainsworth
- Montessori's educational philosophy
- Werner's organismic and comparative theory
- Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory
- Kohlberg's stages of moral development
- Learning theory: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner
- Bandura's social learning theory
- Vygotsky's social-historical theory of cognitive development
- Freud's psychoanalytic theory
- Erikson and the eight stages of life
- Mahler's separation/individual theory
- A case study in psychoanalytic treatment: Bettelheim on autism
- Schachtel on childhood experiences
- Jung's theory of adulthood
- Chomsky's theory of language development
- Conclusion: humanistic psychology and developmental theory
- Epilogue: A developmental perspective on the standards movement.