Concepts and theories of human development /
Discusses the assumptions involved in such topics as stage theories, the nature-nurture issue, the issue of continuity-discontinuity and the important role of philosophical ideas about theories, in particular, metatheories, in understanding the links between theory and research. It particularly focu...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2018].
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- On the primacy of concepts and theories
- Concepts and theories within contemporary developmental science : an overview
- Philosophical and scientific roots of contemporary developmental science
- Metatheoretical models of development
- Theoretical roots of contemporary developmental science : nomothetic (stage), differential, and idiographic (ipsative) approaches
- Toward resolving the nature-nurture controversy : contributions and implications of the scholarship of Anne Anastasi
- Toward resolving the nature-nurture controversy : contributions and implications of the scholarship of T. C. Schneirla
- The orthogenetic principle and the resolution of the continuity-discontinuity issue : contributions and implications of the work of Heinz Werner
- Relational developmental systems-based theories : comparative, evolutionary, and ontogenetic conceptions
- Relational developmental systems-based theories : sample cases
- Genetic reductionism in developmental science : sample cases from the twentieth century
- Genetic reductionism in developmental science : sample cases from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Some implications of relational developmental systems-based theories form research methods and for the application of developmental science.