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Tables of Contents for Comparing Theories of Child Development
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PREFACE
XV
 
PART ONE STANDARDS OF COMPARISON Ways of analyzing likenesses and differences among theories
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52
CHAPTER ONE THEORIES, MODELS, PARADIGMS, AND SUCH
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26
The Difference Your Choice of Theory Can Make
5
7
The Word Theory and Other Terms
12
5
Good Theory, Bad Theory
17
10
Conclusion
27
1
For Further Reading
27
2
CHAPTER TWO THE CONTENTS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES
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24
Content Characteristics
29
21
Conclusion
50
1
For Further Reading
50
3
PART TWO SOURCES OF THEORIES A search for the wellsprings of child development theories
53
56
CHAPTER THREE CULTURAL ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC THEORIES
57
21
Refining Descriptive Data
57
3
Introducing Alternative Perspectives
60
3
Systematizing Information
63
6
Refining Definitions
69
1
Improving Quantification
70
3
Extending Commonsense Insights
73
1
Replacing Dubious Explanations
74
1
Interpreting Puzzling Observations
74
1
Avoiding Troublesome Issues
75
1
Responding to Existing Theories
76
1
For Further Reading
76
2
CHAPTER FOUR COMMONSENSE ATTRIBUTION THEORY
78
23
The Causes of Human Action
79
1
Talk about Children: Grist for Commonsense Psychology's Mill
80
1
Applying an Attribution Theory
81
8
The Development of People's Commonsense Theory
89
1
Implications of the Theory for the Treatment of Children
89
1
Children's Interpretations of Their Own Behavior
90
1
Privilege and Responsibility
91
2
Practical Applications
93
1
Naive Psychology: An Assessment
93
6
For Further Reading
99
2
PERSPECTIVE A Distinguishing Normal from Abnormal Development
101
8
PART THREE THE PSYCHOANALYTIC TRADITION A search for developmental causes and cures of neuroses
109
68
CHAPTER FIVE SIGMUND FREUD'S PSYCHOANALYSIS
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33
Levels of Consciousness
112
2
The Psychic Apparatus
114
5
The Psychosexual Stages of Development
119
8
Two Facets of Development
127
6
Anna Freud's Psychoanalysis of Children
133
2
Practical Applications
135
1
Freudian Theory: An Assessment
136
6
For Further Reading
142
2
CHAPTER SIX ERIKSON'S VARIATION ON FREUD'S THEME
144
19
Ego Identity and the Healthy Personality
145
1
The Epigenetic Principle
145
1
The Grid of Psychosocial Stages
146
13
Practical Applications
159
1
Erikson's Version of Psychoanalysis: An Assessment
160
2
For Further Reading
162
1
PERSPECTIVES B Identifying States of Consciousness
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14
PART FOUR BEHAVIORISM AND SOCIAL LEARNING MODELS A search for the way principles of learning and social contexts explain development
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CHAPTER SEVEN SKINNER'S OPERANT CONDITIONING
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26
The Nature of Operant Conditioning
181
4
Conditioned Reinforcement and Chaining
185
2
The Scope of Skinner's Theory
187
2
Heredity versus Environment
189
1
The Stages of Child Rearing
190
5
Bijou and Baer's Additions to Radical Behaviorism
195
3
Enhanced Behaviorism
198
3
Practical Applications
201
2
Skinner's Operant Conditioning: An Assessment
203
3
For Further Reading
206
1
CHAPTER EIGHT SOCIAL COGNITION THEORY AND CONTEXTUALISM
207
26
Bandura's Conception of Social Learning or Social Cognition
207
14
Practical Applications of Bandura's Model
221
1
Bandura's Social Cognition Theory: An Assessment
222
2
The Nature of Contextualism
224
8
For Further Reading
232
1
Perspective C Judging the Appropriateness of Research Methods
233
10
PART FIVE THE GROWTH OF THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE A search for patterns of development in children's cognitive and verbal skills and for the mechanisms that bring these patterns about
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86
CHAPTER NINE PIAGET'S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY
245
42
Piaget's Clinical Method
246
1
Piaget's Conception of Knowledge
247
2
The Mechanisms of Development
249
6
Levels and Stages of Development
255
13
Four Concepts: A Closer Look
268
5
Educational Applications of the Theory
273
7
Piaget's Theory: An Assessment
280
5
For Further Reading
285
2
CHAPTER TEN VYGOTSKY AND THE SOVIET TRADITION
287
26
Key Influences on Vygotsky's Theory
289
7
The Development of Thought and Language
296
8
Key Generalizations about Development
304
2
Central Concerns in Soviet Developmental Theory: 1920s-1980s
306
1
Practical Applications
307
2
Vygotsky's Theory: An Assessment
309
3
For Further Reading
312
1
PERSPECTIVE D Estimating the Future of Stage Theories
313
16
PART SIX COMPUTER ANALOGUES AND THE SELF A search for the way children gain skill in processing information and for how a child's innermost self develops
329
70
CHAPTER ELEVEN INFORMATION-PROCESSING THEORIES
331
33
Classical Components of the Information-Processing System
332
15
Modes of Investigation
347
1
Modifications of Classical Theory
348
8
Continuing Debates
356
3
Practical Applications
359
1
Information-Processing Theories: An Assessment
360
3
For Further Reading
363
1
CHAPTER TWELVE CONCEPTIONS OF THE SELF: HUMANISTIC AND OTHERWISE
364
27
Defining the Self
364
1
The Humanistic Persuasion
365
12
Practical Applications
377
2
Humanistic Theory: An Assessment
379
5
Other Conceptions of the Self
384
5
For Further Reading
389
2
PERSPECTIVE E Speaking of Cause
391
8
PART SEVEN ENVIRONMENTS, GENETIC PLANS, AND THE BIOLOGICAL CHILD A search for patterns of environmental influence and for the biological sources of development
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72
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
402
17
Backgrounds of Ecological Psychology
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2
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory
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8
Practical Applications
413
1
Ecological Theory: An Assessment
414
4
For Further Reading
418
1
CHAPTER FOURTEEN ETHOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
419
20
A Foundation of Neo-Darwinism
420
2
Ethology's Place in the Study of Children
422
1
Relevant Propositions from Ethology
422
8
Fruitful Research Methods
430
3
Practical Applications and Research Challenges
433
2
Ethological Theory: An Assessment
435
3
For Further Reading
438
1
CHAPTER FIFTEEN A BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL MODEL
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26
Level 1: The Unitary Child
442
2
Level 2: The Organic Child
444
4
Level 3: The Cellular Child
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5
Level 4: The Molecular Child
453
3
Level 5: The Elemental/Atomic Child
456
3
Level 6: The Subatomic-Particle Child
459
2
The Bio-Electrochemical Model: An Assessment
461
3
For Further Reading
464
1
PERSPECTIVE F Faith and Conviction
465
6
PART EIGHT THEORY CENTERED IN VALUES: MORAL DEVELOPMENT A search for the ways children's and youths' moral reasoning and moral behavior evolve
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN KOHLBERG'S MORAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL
475
17
The Theory's Focus
476
1
Kohlberg's Research Methods
477
1
The Levels and Stages of Moral Growth
478
2
The Interaction of Nature and Nurture
480
3
The Three Characteristics of the Stages
483
2
Practical Applications: Fashioning a Program of Moral Education
485
2
Kohlberg's Theory: An Assessment
487
4
For Further Reading
491
1
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN AN INTEGRATED THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT
492
21
Problems with Existing Theories
492
1
Foundational Definitions and Assumptions
493
1
Principal Features of the Model
494
1
Foundational Components
494
2
The Nature of Long-Term Memory
496
8
The Nature of Environments
504
3
Working Memory
507
1
Stages of Moral Development
508
1
An Integrated Moral Development Theory: An Assessment
509
4
PERSPECTIVE G Charting Trends of the Times
513
20
PART NINE THE CONTINUING QUEST A never-ending search for more accurate development models
533
40
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN RECENT ENTRIES
535
34
Connectionism
535
2
Dynamic Systems Theory
537
5
Sociohistorical Life-Course Theory
542
6
An Evolutionary-Psychology View of Birth Order
548
2
Ethnographies--Positivist, Postpositivist, Postmodern
550
10
Child Development under Disadvantaged Social Conditions
560
4
Peer Abuse Theory
564
4
For Further Reading
568
1
PERSPECTIVE H Depicting Theories in the Guise of Metaphors
569
4
REFERENCES
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24
NAME INDEX
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