Theories of development : concepts and applications
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Theories of development : concepts and applications
Prentice Hall, c1992
3rd ed
- : pbk
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Bibliographical references: p. 331-348
Includes indexes
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Description
This text introduces students to 22 different theories of development, comparing and contrasting them. A biographical introduction to each theorist is included, along with case studies and examples. The theorists covered range over both the developmental and the environmental traditions. For example, from the former, in the tradition of Rousseau, those covered include Gesell, Piaget and Montessori and from the latter, in the environmentalist/learning tradition, those covered include Mary Ainsworth, Bandura, Erikson and Chomsky.
Table of Contents
- Early theories - preformationism, Locke and Rousseau
- Gesell's maturational theory
- ethological theories - Darwin, Lorenz and Tinbergen, and Bowlby
- Montessori's educational philosophy
- Wernenr'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
- a case study in psychoanalytic treatment- Bettelheim on autism
- Schachtel on childhood experiences
- Jung's theory of adulthood
- Chomsky's theory of language development
- conclusiion - humanistic psychology and developmental theory.
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