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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.
Table contents:
Chapter One Early Theories: Preformationism, Locke, and Rousseau
Chapter Two Gesell’s Maturational Theory
Chapter Three Ethological Theories: Darwin, Lorenz and Tinbergen, and Bowlby and Ainsworth
Chapter Four Montessori’s Educational Philosophy
Chapter Five Werner’s Organismic and Comparative Theory
Chapter Six Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Chapter Seven Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
Chapter Eight Learning Theory: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner
Chapter Nine Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
Chapter Ten Vygotsky’s Social-Historical Theory of Cognitive Development
Chapter Eleven Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
Chapter Twelve Erikson and the Eight Stages of Life
Chapter Thirteen Mahler’s Separation/Individuation Theory
Chapter Fourteen A Case Study in Psychoanalytic Treatment: Bettelheim on Autism
Chapter Fifteen Schachtel on Childhood Experiences
Chapter Sixteen Jung’s Theory of Adulthood
Chapter Seventeen Chomsky’s Theory of Language Development
Chapter Eighteen Conclusion: Humanistic Psychology and Developmental Theory