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Introduction | |
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What Is a Theory? | |
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What Is a Developmental Theory? | |
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Of What Value is a Developmental Theory? | |
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What Main Issues of Developmental Psychology Do Theories Address? | |
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Piaget's Cognitive-Stage Theory and the Neo-Piagetians | |
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Biographical Sketch | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Description of the Stages | |
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Memory | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Piaget's Own Modifications of His Theory | |
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The Neo-Piagetians | |
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Frued's and Erikson's Psychoanalytic Theories | |
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Freud | |
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Biographical Sketch | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Description of the Stages | |
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Contemporary Research on Relationships | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Erickson | |
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Biographical Sketch | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Description of the Stages | |
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Contemporary Eriksonian Research | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Social-Learning Theory | |
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History of the Theory | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Examples of Developmental Research: Moral Judgments and Gender Roles | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Social Learning Theory Today | |
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Information-Processing Theory | |
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History of the Theory | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Major Developmental Approaches | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Ethiology and Other Evolutionary Theories | |
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History of the Theory | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Contributions to Human Developmental Psychology | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Gibson's Ecological Perceptual Theory of Development | |
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Biographical Sketch | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Developmental Trends | |
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What Infants Learn About | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Vygotsky and the Socioculturalists | |
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Biographical Sketch | |
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General Orientation to the Theory | |
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Examples of Vygotskian and Other Sociocultural Research | |
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Mechanisms of Development | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Applications | |
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Evaluation of the Theory | |
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Concluding Comments | |
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Contemporary Mini-Theories and Emerging Theories | |
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The Theory Theory | |
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Modularity Nativism | |
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Developmental Neuroscience | |
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Dynamic-Systems Theory | |
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Developing-Person-in-Context | |
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Critical Psychology: Are Theories of Development Gendered? | |
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Position on Developmental Issues | |
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Concluding Thoughts | |
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Reflections | |
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Developmental Issues Revisited | |
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A Need for Better Theoretical Accounts of Mechanisms of Development | |
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Historical Progress of Developmental Theories | |
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Conclusions | |