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In this bestselling textbook, contributors describe theories of normal human development advanced by such pioneers as Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jean Piaget, Nancy Chodorow, Daniel Levinson, Erik Erikson, and Margaret Mahler. Beginning with infancy, toddlerhood, and preschool, each chapter examines corresponding ideologies concerning maturation and development in middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, while acknowledging that no one theory can encompass all aspects of human development. In-depth analyses of the psychology and sociology of development provide educators and practitioners with insights into the specific social contexts of human behavior and help identify variables and deviations. This second edition features up-to-date empirical information, including additional studies on diverse populations, and a new chapter on attachment theory, a growing area of interest for today's clinicians.--Description

Go beyond reading about early learning theories and see what they look like in action in modern programs and teacher practices. With classroom vignettes and colorful photographs, this book makes the works of Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Lev Vygotsky, Abraham Maslow, John Dewey, Howard Gardner, and Louise Derman-Sparks visible, accessible, and easier to understand. Each theory is defined—through engaging stories and rich visuals—in relation to cognitive, social-emotional, and physical developmental domains. Use this book to build a stronger comprehension of the foundations of early learning theories and become more reflective and intentional in your work with young children.--Description

This book describes Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which comprises four stages of intellectual maturity that occur throughout an individual?s lifespan. More specifically, this theory explains the nature of how humans acquire knowledge, comprehend it, and apply it. The following four stages, which were developed by Piaget, will be described in detail: the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. According to Piaget, humans experience several transformations in intellectual ability until reaching maturity. The process of cognitive development, which involves the progression of mental functions such as information processing, memory, conception, reasoning, perception, and language, will also be described. This book is ideal for 1-4 year college students, especially those studying psychology as Jean Piaget's theory made a significant contribution to this field.--Description

Jean Piaget was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. His influence on developmental psychology, education and epistemology has been enormous. This text undertakes a reconstruction of the contexts and intellectual development of Piaget's numerous texts in the wide-ranging fields of biology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, child psychology, social psychology, theology, logic, epistemology and education. Richard Kohler reconstructs the often overlooked theological basis of Piaget's theories and analyses the influence this had upon the various areas of his research and reflections.--Description

Contents:
Preface / E. Claparede -- 1. The Functions of Language in Two Children of Six -- 2. Types and Stages in the Conversation of Children between the Ages of Four and Seven -- 3. Understanding and Verbal Explanation between Children of the Same Age between the Years of Six and Eight -- 4. Some Peculiarities of Verbal Understanding in the Child between the Ages of Nine and Eleven -- 5. The Questions of a Child of Six -- 6. The Measure of Ego-centric Language in Verbal Communication between the Adult and the Child and in Verbal Exchanges between Children.

This volume contains an up-to-date presentation of Piaget's theories, and explains their relevance to contemporary education. The Third Edition is updated to include a description of important work, particularly on development and learning, conducted during the last 10-15 years of Piaget's life.--Description

A Piaget Primer performs the major service of giving clear focus and practical application to Piaget's ground-breaking work. It offers not only a lucid explanation of Piaget's own texts but further clarifies his view of a child's thought processes through illustrations drawn Pooh. Peanuts and other classic and popular literature for children. The result makes Piaget's theories on bow a child sees the world both understandable and fascinating.--Description

"For decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with new material by Joan M. Erikson, is an expanded edition of his final work. The Life Cycle Completed eloquently closes the circle of Erikson's theories, outlining the unique rewards and challenges - for both individuals and society - of very old age."-- Back cover.

"As well as exploring the way Erikson's life and work are connected, this book examines the application of his thinking to contemporary social and political issues, and to current psychotherapeutic and counselling practice. His writings have a humanity and approachability that reach beyond the world of psychotherapy to consider questions fundamental to us all. These include the precariousness as well as the creative resilience of individual and group identities; racial and other forms of discrimination; non-violent conflict resolution; the generation gap; and issues of human development from childhood and adolescence to maturity and old age." "Erik Erikson will be of interest to counsellors and psychotherapists in training and in practice. It is also relevant to members of the caring professions seeking a deeper understanding of their work and its place in society."--BOOK JACKET.

This chapter begins by describing very briefly few alternative views which in greater or less degree of purity are to be found in the psychoanalytic and other psychological literature. Psychoanalysts are at one in recognizing the child's first object relations as the foundation stone of his personality: yet there is no agreement on the nature and dynamics of this relationship. A child's intercourse with anyone responsible for his care affords him an unending source of sexual excitation and satisfaction from his erotogenic zones, and he proceeds to praise the mother who "by stroking, kissing and rocking him is fulfilling her task in teaching the child to love". Freud begins, as formerly, by telling us that "a child's first erotic object is the mother's breast which feeds him" and that "love in its beginning attaches itself to the satisfaction of the need for food".

This first volume of John Bowlby's Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior--how it develops, how it is maintained, what functions it fulfills.In the fifteen years since Attachment was first published, there have been major developments in both theoretical discussion and empirical research on attachment. The second edition, with two wholly new chapters and substantial revisions, incorporates these developments and assesses their importance to attachment theory.

A set of social-learning principles are outlined that emphasize the role of social variables to a greater extent than existing learning theories and consequently appear more capable of accounting for the development and modification of human behavior. The socio-behavioristic approach represents an integration of our own research efforts and an attempt to relate these to findings obtained from controlled investigations in a number of areas, including child development and social psychology, as well as traditional experimental psychology.

Adolescents' beliefs in their personal control affects their psychological well-being and the direction their lives take. Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies analyzes the diverse ways in which beliefs of personal efficacy operate within a network of sociocultural influences to shape life paths. The chapters, by internationally known experts, cover such concepts as infancy and personal agency, competency through the life span, the role of family, and cross-cultural factors.