Developmental Psychology
eBook - ePub

Developmental Psychology

How Nature and Nurture Interact

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Developmental Psychology

How Nature and Nurture Interact

About this book

This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture debate and present the reader with new ways of thinking about these issues. The book begins with material that may be familiar to students, then leads them into areas of thought which may be less familiar but which are important and significant aspects of current research and debate in the field. The author shows how an alternative, ecological systems perspective can be used to form more coherent critiques of major theorists like Skinner, Piaget, Vygotsky, and Gibson.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction: the traditional view and its alternative, a summary
  10. 2 Darwinian dichotomies and their dissolution
  11. 3 Towards the alternative: ecological, dynamic systems
  12. 4 Dynamic systems theories
  13. 5 The ecological perspective: Gibson’s legacy
  14. 6 The Creation of Knowledge
  15. 7 A sample of the evidence: wise owls, accurate ants
  16. 8 The origins of knowledge
  17. Glossary
  18. References
  19. Index