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Concept of Development : An Issue in the Study of Human Behavior.
Title:
Concept of Development : An Issue in the Study of Human Behavior.
Author:
Harris, Dale B.
ISBN:
9780816662814
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (298 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Foreword -- ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT -- Problems in Formulating a Scientific Concept of Development -- Determinism and Development -- Dynamics of Development: Systems in Process -- BIOLOGY AND GROWTH -- The Concept of "Development" in Biology -- The Genetic and Environmental Differentiation of Behavior -- The Concept of Development in Comparative Psychology -- A Descriptive Concept of Physical Development -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR -- The Concept of Development from a Comparative and Organismic Point of View -- Identification as a Form of Behavioral Development -- An Experimental Psychology of Development: Pipe Dream or Possibility? -- THE CONCEPT OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Organism and Humanism: An Empirical View -- Clio Puts the Question -- Evolution and Development: A View of Anthropology -- SOCIAL APPLICATIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL CONCEPT -- Significance of Growth and Development to the Practicing Physician -- The Relation between Early Childhood Development and Psychopathology -- The Concept of Development Which Underlies the Social Work Helping Process -- Developmental Theory in Education -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
The Concept of Development was first published in 1967. In the various disciplines which make up the behavioral sciences, the concept of development plays a useful and significant role. The need has existed, however, for more unity of thought regarding the meaning of the concept, and this volume represents a long step ahead toward that goal. The book contains a series of 17 papers by as many contributors from the fields of psychology, philosophy, the natural sciences, medical science, social science, and the humanities. The chapters are arranged in five sections: Issues in the Study of Development, Biology and Growth, The Development of Human Behavior, The Concept of Development in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Social Applications of the Developmental Concept. The contributors are Dale B. Harris, Ernest Nagel, John E. Anderson, Viktor Hamburger, J. P. Scott, T. C. Schneirla, Howard V. Meredith, Heinz Werner, Robert R. Sears, Wallace A. Russell, Norman J. DeWitt, Herbert Heaton, Robert F. Spencer, John A. Anderson, M.D., Hyman S. Lippman, M.D., John C. Kidneigh, and Willard C. Olson. The book is especially appropriate for text use or collateral reading in courses in psychology, education, sociology, or child development.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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