Exploring Developmental Theories

Toward A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development

Frances Degen Horowitz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

1987
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89859-938-1 (ISBN)

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Through the evaluation and integration of developmental theories, this volume proposes a new structural/behavioral model of development. Dr. Horowitz’s model helps account for both the behavioral development of children (with extensions across the life-span) and for the universal and non-universal characteristics in human behavioral development. Exploring Developmental Theories also sheds a new and different light on the nature- nurture or heredity-environment controversy and on the topic of continuity and discontinuity in development.

Exploring Developmental Theories:
*examines the concepts of stage, structure, and systems; organismic theory; and general system theory;
*analyzes open and closed systems as well as organismic and mechanistic world views;
*integrates the concepts associated with organismic and mechanist world views;
*examines learning mechanisms and processes that foster the acquisition of behavior, and
*discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Gessel, Piaget, and behaviorism in accounting for behavioral development.

Horowitz, Frances Degen

Contents: Overture. Organismic Theory: Stage, Structure, and System. Behaviorism: Processes of Acquisition and Organization of Mechanisms. Environment and Development. Synthesis: A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development. Using the Model for Developmental Research.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.6.1987
Verlagsort	Mahwah
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-89859-938-5 / 0898599385
ISBN-13	978-0-89859-938-1 / 9780898599381
Zustand	Neuware