Individuals as Producers of Their Development: A Life-Span Perspective provides an assessment of the usefulness of viewing the individual as an active contributor to his or her development. It extends the breadth of organism-environment reciprocities beyond those involved with the child and family. On the one hand, this extension involves a consideration of the role of evolutionary biological processes; on the other, it pertains to the broader ecology of human development—the social network lying outside the family, and the physical environmental contexts of development. Person-context reciprocities linked to variables that may play their greatest role in the extrafamilial context are also considered. Variables such as physical attractiveness, race, and physical handicap are examples of those discussed in this regard. Finally, because of the greater scope of the analysis, a potentially greater data base is examined in a search for documentation of the presence and role of dynamic person-context interactions.

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Front Cover
Individuals as Producers of their Development: A Life-Span Perspective
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Individuals as Producers of Their Development: Conceptual and Empirical Bases
Chapter 2. Evolutionary Aspects of the Activity of the Organism and Its Development
Chapter 3. Figure, Ground, and Gestalt: The Cultural Context of the Active Individual
Chapter 4. Infants as Producers of Their Own Development: An Ecological Analysis
Chapter 5. Individuals' Contributions to Their Own Development during Childhood: A Piagetian Perspective
Chapter 6. Adolescents and Young Adults as Producers of Their Development
Chapter 7. Making It: The Dialectics of Middle Age
Chapter 8. Proactive and Reactive Aspects of Constructivism: Growth and Aging in Life-Span Perspective
Chapter 9. The Role of Temperament in the Contributions of Individuals to Their Development
Chapter 10. The Physical Environment: Stimulation or Evocation
Chapter 11. Where Is the Ηandicap in Disability?: The Contextual Impact of Physical Disability
Chapter 12. Life-Span Sex Roles: Development, Continuity, and Change
Chapter 13. A Body-Behavior Conceptualization of a Somatopsychological Problem: Race
Chapter 14. The Role of Physical Attractiveness as a Contributor to Individual Development
Chapter 15. Political Values, Conceptual Models, and Research
Author Index
Subject Index

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