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Life-Span Developmental Psychology
Research and Theory
- 1st Edition - September 25, 2013
- Editors: L. R. Goulet, Paul B. Baltes
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 0 4 5 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 1 7 9 4 - 9
Life-Span Development Psychology: Research and Theory covers the issues and problems associated with a life-span conceptualization of developmental psychology. The book discusses… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLife-Span Development Psychology: Research and Theory covers the issues and problems associated with a life-span conceptualization of developmental psychology. The book discusses the status,issues, and antecedents of life-span developmental psychology; an approach to theory construction in the psychology of development and aging; and models and theories of development. The text also describes the methodology and research strategy in the study of developmental change; the application of multivariate strategies to problems of measuring and structuring long-term change; and the mechanisms required for the operation of perception and recognition. Learning and retention; language; and intellectual abilities are also considered. Developmental psychologists will find the study invaluable.
List of Contributors
Preface
Conceptual Status and History
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
2. Historical Antecedents of Life-Span Developmental Psychology
I. Introduction
II. American Beginnings
III. Clinical Work with Children
IV. Educational Psychology
V. Behaviorism
VI. 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
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
Theory Construction
4. An Approach to Theory Construction in the Psychology of Development and Aging
I. 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. Conclusions
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
General Methodology
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 Functions
V. The Study of Functional Relations among Developmental Variables
VI. The Study of Individual Differences within the Developmental-Functional Framework
VII. Conclusion
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
IV. Correlational Techniques which Bear directly on the Problems of Structuring Change
V. Overview of More Generalized Correlational Techniques
VI. Areas of Convergence between Multivariate Techniques and Developmental Concepts
VII. Conclusion
Perception and Cognition
8. Life-Span Changes in Visual Perception
I. Introduction
II. Visual Illusion
III. Spatial Orientation
IV. Part-Whole Differentiation
V. Perceptual Closure
VI. Speed of Recognition
VII. Conclusion
9. Light Detection and Pattern Recognition: Some Comments on the Growth of Visual Sensation and Perception
I. Introduction
II. Some History of Sensation and Perception
III. The Mechanisms of Detection and Recognition
IV. Detection and Recognition in Neonates
V. Simultaneous Detection and Recognition
VI. Detection, Recognition, and Method
VII. Perception and Judgment
VIII. Detection Theory
IX. Muddy and Cloudy Developmental Data
10. Cognitive Changes in Adulthood
I. Differences between Child and Adult Cognitive Changes
II. The Role of Experience in Adult Cognitive Change
Learning and Retention
11. Learning in Children and in Older Adults
I. Conditioning
II. Discrimination Learning
III. Paired-Associate and Serial Learning
IV. Incidental Learning
12. The Experiential Origins of Human Behavior
I. Introduction
II. Unconditioned and Conditioned Behavior
III. A Brief Review of Selected Facts about Infant Behavior Plasticity
IV. Comments on the Concept of “State”
V. Summary
13. Retention-Forgetting as a Nomological Network for Developmental Research
I. Introduction
II. Verbal Learning: Models, Processes, and Paradigms
III. A Nomological Network for Retention-Development Relationships
IV. Interference Theory and Retention-Development Relationships
V. Retention-Development Relationships for Recognition Learning
VI. Concluding Comments
Language
14. The Language Acquisition Process: A Reinterpretation of Selected Research Findings
I. Introduction
II. Intralingual Relations
III. Psycholinguistic Operations
15. Research on Language Acquisition: Do We Know Where We Are Going
I. Historical Introduction
II. Psycholinguistics
Intellectual Abilities
16. Organization of Data on Life-Span Development of Human Abilities
I. Introduction
II. Unity and Differentiation among Abilities
III. Processes Basic to Intellectual Functioning
IV. Development of Abilities in Childhood
V. Development of Abilities in Adulthood and Old Age
VI. General Summary
17. Comparative Factor Analytic Studies of Intelligence throughout The Human Life-Span
I. Introduction
II. Relevant Hypotheses and Results
III. Methodological Aspects and Problems
IV. Discussion and Conclusions
18. A Reinterpretation of Age Related Changes in Cognitive Structure and Functioning
I. Introduction
II. Age Changes versus Age Differences versus Cultural Change
III. The Impact of Generational Differences
IV. Empirical Evidence Bearing upon Generation Differences in Intelligence
V. Conclusions
References
Author Index
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 608
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 25, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483204512
- eBook ISBN: 9781483217949
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