Comparing theories of child development
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Comparing theories of child development
Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1992
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 542-562) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A comprehensive text on theories of child development, organized around the theorists themselves. It provides students with nine criteria for judging and comparing the adequacy of a good theory.
Table of Contents
Part I: Standards of comparison. Theories, models, paradigms, and such. The contents of child development. Part II: Foundation for creating theories. Gesell's descriptive growth gradients. Havighurst's developmental tasks. Commonsense attribution theory. Part III: The psychoanalytic tradition. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. Erikson's variation on Freud's theme. Part IV: Behaviourism and social learning perspective. Skinner's operant conditioning. Social learning theory and contexturalism. Part V: The growth of thought and language. Piaget's cognitive development theory. Vigotsky and the Soviet tradition. Part VI: Computer analogues and the self. Information-processing theory. Humanistic perspectives. Part VII: Environments and genetic plans. Ecological psychology. Ethology and sociobiology. Part VIII: Theory centered in values-moral development. Kohlberg's moral development model. An integrated theory of moral development.
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