(eBook PDF) Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications 6th Edition

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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

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