Comparing theories of child development
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Comparing theories of child development
Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1996
4th ed
- acid-free paper
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-520) and indexes
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Description
Explaining the nature of theories in the field of child development (including why theories are useful and why there are multiple theories), this text covers a range of theories. It suggests a variety of ways to compare theories to help guide the search of child development theorists who may be dissatisfied with existing explanations of how a child grows up. As well as including material on the bio-electrochemical view of the child, the book features charts that trace the popularity of each major theory from 1910 to 1995. Each chapter is organized around individual theorists and shows how the theories relate to the concepts discussed within each chapter.
Table of Contents
- Standards of comparison - theories, models, paradigms, and such
- the contents of child development theories
- sources of theories - cultural origins of scientific theories
- commonsense attribution theory
- perspective A - distinguishing normal from abnormal development
- the psychoanalytic tradition - Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis
- Erikson's variation on Freud's theme
- perspective B - identifying states of consciousness
- behaviourism and social learning models - Skinner's operant conditioning
- social learning theory and contextualism
- perspective C - judging the appropriateness of research methods
- the growth of thought and language - Piaget's cognitive development theory
- Vygotsky and the Soviet tradition
- perspective D - estimating the future of stage theories
- computer analogs and the self - information-processing theories
- conceptions of the self - humanistic and otherwise
- perspective E - speaking of cause
- environments, genetic plans, and the biological child - ecological psychology
- ethology and sociobiology
- a bio-electrochemical model
- perspective F - charting trends of the times
- theory centered in values - moral development - Kohlberg's view of moral development
- an integrated moral development theory
- perspective G - depicting theories in the guise of metaphors.
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