Patricia H. Miller

Theories of Developmental Psychology

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Produktbeschreibung

Always reflective of the latest research and thinking in the field, Patricia Miller's acclaimed text offers an ideal way to help students understand and distinguish the major theoretical schools of child development. This fully updated new edition includes a new focus on biological theories of development, and offers new instructor resource materials. Each major theory is discussed in terms of general orientation, mechanisms of development, its' strengths and weaknesses, its' applications, the historical context that led to its' development, and in an all new section the contemporary research associated with it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Learning
• Sixth Edition
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781429278980
• ISBN-10: 1429278986
• Artikelnr.: 43706597

Autorenporträt

Patricia H. Miller

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
* New coverage of developmental cascade—the effect of a child’s
relationship with their parent on their teenage and adult
relationships later in life.
* New discussion of the effect of experience on the brain in regard to
language development.
2. Piaget’s Cognitive-Stage Theory and the Neo-Piagetians
* New discussion of Piaget’s theories of memory, the cognitive
abilities of infants, social and emotional development, in light of
current research.
* New Discussion of Kurt Fischer’s dynamic structuralism
* New discussion of developmental cognitive neuroscience and the role
of new neuroimaging methods.
* Thoroughly revised contemporary research section.
3. Freud’s and Erikson’s Psychoanalytic Theories
* New coverage of recent theoretical work attempting to bring together
contemporary attachment theory and psychoanalytic approaches
* Discussion of new predictive models generated by methodological and
statistical breakthroughs on the effects of early social and
emotional experiences on later development
* Thoroughly revise contemporary research section
* New coverage and research regarding identity development and the
influence of racial and economic stratification.
4. Vygotsky and the Sociocultural Approach
* New coverage of how culture affects intellectual functioning
including the effect of communication technologies.
* New discussion of research on the development of private speech.
* New discussion of how perception of intelligence varies by culture.
* New discussion of sensitivity of social cultural theorists to
cultural differences.
* New discussion of problem based learning in the Applications section.
* Thouroughly update contemporary research section including new
research on collaborative problem solving and cross-cultural
research. And three new subsections Social Change elaborating on
effects of social and cultural change on development; Immigrant
Families exploring the process of development in the context of
adapting to a new culture; and current trends in cultural
psychological research discussing research aimed at exploring more
specific dimensions of culture.
5. Biological Approaches: Ethology, Evolution, Neuroscience, Genetics
* Chapter has been fully revised to focus on biological approaches to
development including all-new sections (Developmental Neuroscience,
Genetics, and Integrated Multilevel Biological Perspectives) with
discussion of epigenetic models, neuroimaging, neurogenetics and
more.
6. Social Learning Theory
* Updated discussion of collective efficacy
* New discussion of moral disengagement in regard to cyberbullying.
* New discussion of Coercive caretaker-child interactions in early
development and effects on later behavioral problems in school.
* Throughly updated contemporary research section to include to new
research on the role of imitation in learning including discussion of
discovery of action mirroring, and the mirror neuron system as well
as preschooler selective observational learning based on their
perceived trust of the person they are learning from.
7. Information-Processing Theory
* New material on memory research in regard to negative events, for
example abuse, and new research on the effects of multitasking on
memory.
* Contemporary research section has been fully updated to discuss
executive function, cognitive neuroscience, embodied cognition,
Bayesian models, statistical learning, and developmental robotics.
8. Gibson’s Ecological Theory of Perceptual Development
* Contemporary research section has been fully revised, including new
discussion of infants motor development and research advances made
possible by neuroimaging.
9. Theories Today: Themes and Reflections
* New coverage of theory of mind research, dynamic systems theory, and
all new section on Core Knowledge theories.
Reflections