Causes of development : interdisciplinary perspectives
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Causes of development : interdisciplinary perspectives
(The Developing body and mind)
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliography and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The question of what causes development is difficult for scientists. Are various theories of development merely descriptive or do they actually explain what causes development to occur? Causal processes have been suggested at the genetic, the embryological, the evolutionary and the social and cultural levels, but there has been little attempt to discover any common principles among the differing types of developmental explanations. In this book, 12 authors who work in the development field within their different disciplines offer their explanations of the factors which bring about development. Areas covered include cognitive developmental psychology, developmental biology, ethology, embryology, social psychology and computer science.
Table of Contents
- Concepts of causality in explanations of development, Brian Hopkins and George Butterworth
- empirical evidence for causes in development, Peter Bryant
- the causes of biological form, Brian Goodwin
- causes of development in ethology, Peter Slater
- the development of reasoning ability, P.Johnson-Laird
- causal explanations of cognitive development, James Russell
- on some relations between the description and the explanation of developmental change, Susan Carey
- causes of social development from the perspective of an integrated developmental science, Robert Hinde
- causes and reasons in social development, Ivana Markova
- the child's theory of mind and its cultural context, Paul Harris
- life history perspectives on human development, James Chisolm.
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