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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Includes bibliography and index
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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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