Theory building in developmental psychology /

Discussing (from various viewpoints) problems in theory building and theory evaluation, this book starts from the assumption that theories of development are particular ways of defining the concept of psychological development in terms of a specific conceptual framework, as well as in terms of a spe...

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Corporate Authors: ScienceDirect (Online service), Inaugural European Conference on Behavioural Development
Other Authors: Geert, Paul van
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A.and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1986.
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 36.
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Summary:Discussing (from various viewpoints) problems in theory building and theory evaluation, this book starts from the assumption that theories of development are particular ways of defining the concept of psychological development in terms of a specific conceptual framework, as well as in terms of a specific empirical range (nature of the explained phenomena, prototypical experiments and applications, etc.). The first three parts deal with basic problems in modern developmental psychology, namely ways of describing development and how they direct theory formation; causes and conditions of developme.
Item Description:Based on a symposium held at the Inaugural European Conference on Behavioural Development in Groningen, 28-31 Aug. 1984.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 499 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780080866901
0080866905