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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 | |