(eBook PDF) Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications 6th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
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- ISBN-10 : 0205810462
- ISBN-13 : 978-0205810468
- Author: William Crain (Author)
The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also covers theories in the environmental/learning tradition.
table of contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 Early Theories: Preformationism, Locke, and Rousseau
Chapter 2 Gesell’s Maturational Theory
Chapter 3 Ethological Theories: Darwin, Lorenz and Tinbergen, and Bowlby and Ainsworth
Chapter 4 Montessori’s Educational Philosophy
Chapter 5 Werner’s Organismic and Comparative Theory
Chapter 6 Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Chapter 7 Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
Chapter 8 Learning Theory: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner
Chapter 9 Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
Chapter 10 Vygotsky’s Social-Historical Theory of Cognitive Development
Chapter 11 Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
Chapter 12 Erikson and the Eight Stages of Life
Chapter 13 Mahler’s Separation/Individuation Theory
Chapter 14 A Case Study in Psychoanalytic Treatment: Bettelheim on Autism
Chapter 15 Schachtel on Childhood Experiences
Chapter 16 Jung’s Theory of Adulthood
Chapter 17 Chomsky’s Theory of Language Development 1This chapter was written in collaboration with Stephen Crain.
Chapter 18 Conclusion: Humanistic Psychology and Developmental Theory; epi A Developmental Perspective on the Standards Movement