1st Edition
Exploring Developmental Theories Toward A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development
By Frances Degen Horowitz
Copyright 1987
232 Pages
by
Psychology Press
232 Pages
by
Psychology Press
224 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Through the evaluation and integration of developmental theories, this volume proposes a new structural/behavioral model of development. Dr. Horowitz’s model helps account for both the behavioral development of children (with extensions across the life-span) and for the universal and non-universal characteristics in human behavioral development. Exploring Developmental Theories also sheds... Read more
Contents: Overture. Organismic Theory: Stage, Structure, and System. Behaviorism: Processes of Acquisition and Organization of Mechanisms. Environment and Development. Synthesis: A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development. Using the Model for Developmental Research.
Biography
Horowitz, Frances Degen
"This book is a fine and bold attempt to build a model of development. Few try it, and Horowitz is to be commended for both the effort and its results ... Horowitz's model is important precisely because she has attempted to overcome what others have considered unbridgeable."
—Human Development
