Concepts and Theories of Human Development

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Contents About the Author Foreword Preface 1 On the Primacy of Concepts and Theories 2 Concepts and Theories within Contemporary Developmental Science: An Overview 3 Philosophical and Scientific Roots of Contemporary Developmental Science 4 Metatheoretical Models of Development 5 Theoretical Roots of Contemporary Developmental Science: Nomothetic (Stage), Differential, and Idiographic (Ipsative) Approaches 6 Toward Resolving the Nature–Nurture Controversy: Contributions and Implications of the Scholarship of Anne Anastasi 7 Toward Resolving the Nature–Nurture Controversy: Contributions and Implications of the Scholarship of T. C. Schneirla 8 The Orthogenetic Principle and the Resolution of the Continuity–Discontinuity Issue: Contributions and Implications of the Work of Heinz Werner 9 Relational Developmental Systems-Based Theories: Comparative, Evolutionary, and Ontogenetic Conceptions 10 Relational Developmental Systems-Based Theories: Sample Cases 11 Genetic Reductionism in Developmental Science: Sample Cases from the Twentieth Century 12 Genetic Reductionism in Developmental Science: Sample Cases from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 13 Some Implications of Relational Developmental Systems-Based Theories for Research Methods and for the Application of Developmental Science References Photo Credits Name Index Subject Index