Exploring Developmental Theories : Toward a Structural / Behavioral Model of Development

Horowitz, Frances D.

ISBN 10: 0898599377 / ISBN 13: 9780898599374

Published by Mahwah, NJ, U.S.A.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated, 1987, 1987

About this Item

Very good to like new hardcover, book is clean and tight.

Seller Inventory # 4040

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Developmental Theories : Toward a Structural / Behavioral Model of Development
• Publisher: Mahwah, NJ, U.S.A.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated, 1987
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898599377
• ISBN 13: 9780898599374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Through the evaluation and integration of developmental theories, this volume proposes a new structural/behavioral model of development. Dr. Horowitz’s model helps account for both the behavioral development of children (with extensions across the life-span) and for the universal and non-universal characteristics in human behavioral development. Exploring Developmental Theories also sheds a new and different light on the nature- nurture or heredity-environment controversy and on the topic of continuity and discontinuity in development.

Exploring Developmental Theories:
*examines the concepts of stage, structure, and systems; organismic theory; and general system theory;
*analyzes open and closed systems as well as organismic and mechanistic world views;
*integrates the concepts associated with organismic and mechanist world views;
*examines learning mechanisms and processes that foster the acquisition of behavior, and
*discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Gessel, Piaget, and behaviorism in accounting for behavioral development.

About the Author

Horowitz, Frances Degen