AuthorThomas, R. Murray (Robert Murray), 1921-
TitleComparing theories of child development / R. Murray Thomas
Imprint Belmont, CA. : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2005
Edition 6th ed
Descript xviii, 558 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Standards of comparison: Theories, models,paradigms, and such ; The contents of child development theories -- The psychoanalytic tradition: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis ; Erikson's variation on Freud's theme -- Behaviorigm and social learning models: Skinner's operant conditioning ; Social-cognition theory and contexttualism -- The growth of thought and language: Piaget's cognitive development theory ; Vygotsky and the Soviet tradition -- Computer analogues and the self: Information-processing theories ; Conceptions of the self: humanistic and otherwise -- Environments, genetic pland, and the biological child: Ecological psychology ; Ethology and sociobiology ; A bioeletrochemical meodel -- Theory centered in values: moral development: Kohlberg's moral development model ; Gilligan's compassionate caring -- The continuing quest: Recent entries


SUBJECT

  1. Child psychology
  2. Child developmet

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