Name: Theories of Development By William Crain
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Theories of Development: International Edition by William Crain

For undergraduate/graduate courses in Child Development, Lifespan Development, and Theories of Development.

The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also covers theories in the environmental/learning tradition.

About William Crain

William Crain is professor of psychology at the City College of New York and is the editor of the journal, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice. He and his wife Ellen F. Crain, a pediatrician, have three grown children.

1. Early Theories: Preformationism, Locke, and Rousseau.

2. Gesell's Maturational Theory.

3. Ethological Theories: Darwin, Lorenz, Tinbergen, and Bowlby and Ainsworth.

4. Montessori's Educational Philosophy.

5. Werner's Organismic and Comparative Theory.

6. Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory.

7. Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development.

8. Learning Theory: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner.

9. Bandura's Social Learning Theory.

10. Vygotsky's Social-Historical Theory of Cognitive Development.

11. Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory.

12. Erikson and the Eight Stages of Life.

13. Mahler's Separation/Individuation Theory.

14. A Case Study in Psychoanalytic Treatment: Bettelheim on Autism.

15. Schachtel on Childhood Experiences.

16. Jung's Theory of Adulthood.

17. Chomsky's Theory of Language Development.

18. Conclusion: Humanistic Psychology and Developmental Theory.

Epilogue: A Developmental Perspective on the Standards Movement.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

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9780131293908

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0131293907

Title

Theories of Development: International Edition by William Crain

Author

William Crain

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Publisher

Pearson Education (US)

Year published

2008-05-08

Number of pages

448

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Theories of Development William Crain

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