Exploring Developmental Theories
Toward A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development
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Exploring Developmental Theories
Toward A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Overture
- 2 Organismic Theory: Stage, Structure, and System
- 3 Behaviorism: Processes of Acquisition and Organization of Mechanisms
- 4 Environment and Development
- 5 Synthesis: A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development
- 6 Using the Model for Developmental Research
- Author Index
- Subject Index