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Life-span developmental psychology; research and theory
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York,
Academic Press,
1970.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Research and Theory; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; PART I: CONCEPTUAL STATUS AND HISTORY; Chapter 1. Status and Issues of a Life-Span Developmental Psychology; I. Introduction; II. Developmental Disciplines: The Study of Change; III. General Developmental Psychology; IV. Human Life-Span Developmental Psychology; V. Conclusions and Perspectives; Chapter 2. Historical Antecedents of Life-Span Developmental Psychology; I. Introduction; II. American Beginnings; III. Clinical Work with Children; IV. Educational Psychology.
- v. BehaviorismVI. Developmental Psychology in the 1920s and 1930s; VII. Child-Study Institutes; VIII. Other Early Influences; IX. Maturity and Old Age; X. Child Psychology through the Middle of the Century; XI. Post World War II; XII. Who Studies the Life-Span?; XIII. Longitudinal Studies of the Life-Span; XIV. Conclusion; Chapter 3. Life-Span Developmental Psychology in Europe: Past and Present; I. Introduction; II. Prescientific Origins of Life-Span Developmental Psychology; III. Scientific Origins of Life-Span Developmental Psychology; IV. Concluding Remarks; PART II: THEORY CONSTRUCTION.
- Chapter 4. An Approach to Theory Construction in the Psychology of Development and AgingI. Introduction; II. Evidence and Inference: A Case History and Commentary; III. The Deductive Function of Theories; IV. Theories and the Analysis of Arguments; V.A Simple Exercise in Theory Construction: The Internal Logic of a Theory of the Effects of Age on Creative Thinking; VI. A Difficult Exercise in Theory Construction: The Internal Logic of the Theory of Disengagement; VII. The Role of Models and Analogies in Theory Construction; VIII. Commentary on Birren's Counterpart Theory of Aging.
- IX. ConclusionsChapter 5. Models of Development and Theories of Development; I. Introduction; II. Models and Theories; III. The Concept of Development; IV. The Mechanistic and Organismic Models of Development; V. Summary and Conclusions; PART III: GENERAL METHODOLOGY; Chapter 6. Methodology and Research Strategy in the Study of Developmental Change; I. Introduction: The Age Variable in Developmental Research; II. The Formulation and Assessment of the Dependent Variable in Developmental Studies; III. The Longitudinal Method: Its Value and Limitations and Some Compromise Solutions.
- IV. The Descriptive Analysis of Developmental FunctionsV. The Study of Functional Relations among Developmental Variables; VI. The Study of Individual Differences within the Developmental-Functional Framework; VII. Conclusion; Chapter 7. Application of Multivariate Strategies to Problems of Measuring and Structuring Long-Term Change; I. Introduction; II. Implications of Multivariate Techniques for Studying Patterns of Change; III. Implications of Factor Analysis for Structuring Qualitative and Quantitative Change: Factor Loading Patterns and Factor Scores.