Theories of Developmental Psychology

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Always reflective of the latest research and thinking in the field, Patricia Miller's acclaimed text offers an ideal way to help students understand and distinguish the major theoretical schools of child development. This fully updated new edition includes a new focus on biological theories of development, and offers new instructor resource materials.

Each major theory is discussed in terms of general orientation, mechanisms of development, its' strengths and weaknesses, its' applications, the historical context that led to its' development, and in an all new section the contemporary research associated with it.

Über den Autor

Patricia H. Miller

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

New coverage of developmental cascade—the effect of a child’s relationship with their parent on their teenage and adult relationships later in life.
New discussion of the effect of experience on the brain in regard to language development.

2. Piaget’s Cognitive-Stage Theory and the Neo-Piagetians

New discussion of Piaget’s theories of memory, the cognitive abilities of infants, social and emotional development, in light of current research.

New Discussion of Kurt Fischer’s dynamic structuralism

New discussion of developmental cognitive neuroscience and the role of new neuroimaging methods.

Thoroughly revised contemporary research section.

3. Freud’s and Erikson’s Psychoanalytic Theories

New coverage of recent theoretical work attempting to bring together contemporary attachment theory and psychoanalytic approaches

Discussion of new predictive models generated by methodological and statistical breakthroughs on the effects of early social and emotional experiences on later development

Thoroughly revise contemporary research section

New coverage and research regarding identity development and the influence of racial and economic stratification.

4. Vygotsky and the Sociocultural Approach

New coverage of how culture affects intellectual functioning including the effect of communication technologies.

New discussion of research on the development of private speech.

New discussion of how perception of intelligence varies by culture.

New discussion of sensitivity of social cultural theorists to cultural differences.

New discussion of problem based learning in the Applications section.

Thouroughly update contemporary research section including new research on collaborative problem solving and cross-cultural research. And three new subsections Social Change elaborating on effects of social and cultural change on development; Immigrant Families exploring the process of development in the context of adapting to a new culture; and current trends in cultural psychological research discussing research aimed at exploring more specific dimensions of culture.

5. Biological Approaches: Ethology, Evolution, Neuroscience, Genetics

Chapter has been fully revised to focus on biological approaches to development including all-new sections (Developmental Neuroscience, Genetics, and Integrated Multilevel Biological Perspectives) with discussion of epigenetic models, neuroimaging, neurogenetics and more.

6. Social Learning Theory

Updated discussion of collective efficacy

New discussion of moral disengagement in regard to cyberbullying.

New discussion of Coercive caretaker-child interactions in early development and effects on later behavioral problems in school.

Throughly updated contemporary research section to include to new research on the role of imitation in learning including discussion of discovery of action mirroring, and the mirror neuron system as well as preschooler selective observational learning based on their perceived trust of the person they are learning from.

7. Information-Processing Theory

New material on memory research in regard to negative events, for example abuse, and new research on the effects of multitasking on memory.

Contemporary research section has been fully updated to discuss executive function, cognitive neuroscience, embodied cognition, Bayesian models, statistical learning, and developmental robotics.

8. Gibson’s Ecological Theory of Perceptual Development

Contemporary research section has been fully revised, including new discussion of infants motor development and research advances made possible by neuroimaging.

9. Theories Today: Themes and Reflections

New coverage of theory of mind research, dynamic systems theory, and all new section on Core Knowledge theories.

Reflections　

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Angewandte Psychologie
Genre:	Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	512
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781429278980
ISBN-10:	1429278986
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Miller, Patricia H.
Hersteller:	Macmillan Learning
Maße:	233 x 154 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Patricia H. Miller
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.02.2016
Gewicht:	0,723 kg

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