Life-Span Developmental Psychology

Methodological Issues

John R. Nesselroade, Hayne W. Reese, John R. Nesselroade, Hayne W. Reese

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780125156509
• eBook ISBN: 9781483274751
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Methodological Issues is based on a conference, held at West Virginia University in 1971, that focused on the general topic of Life-Span Developmental Psychology. The conference provided a forum for the discussion of a variety of methodological issues related to the study of developmental processes over the life-span. The principal objectives of the Life-Span Conference have been not only to explicate, by successive approximation, the range of empirical phenomena with which a life-span developmental psychology should be concerned, but also to explore issues about theory, measurement, design, and data analysis which bear upon it. The book opens with a chapter on ethical issues in developmental psychology. This is followed by separate chapters on topics such as cross-cultural research in developmental psychology; the implications of the two models that have had the greatest impact on developmental psychology—the mechanistic (reactive organism) model and the organismic (active organism) model; and research strategies and measurement methods for investigating human development

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Methodological Issues
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• CHAPTER 1. Developmental Psychology and Society: Some Historical and Ethical Considerations
• CHAPTER 2. The Early Development of Parent-Young Interaction in Nature
• CHAPTER 3. Methodological Issues of Cross-Cultural Research in Developmental Psychology
• CHAPTER 4. Models of Development: Methodological Implications
• CHAPTER 5. Research Strategies and Measurement Methods for Investigating Human Development
• CHAPTER 6. Unraveling Maturational and Learning Developments by the Comparative MAVA and Structured Learning Approaches
• CHAPTER 7. Assessment of Developmental Factor Change at the Individual and Group Level
• CHAPTER 8. Strategies for Analyzing Behavioral Change Over Time
• CHAPTER 9. The Control of Developmental Process: Why Wait?
• CHAPTER 10. Behavioral Ecology and Experimental Analysis: Courtship Is Not Enough
• CHAPTER 11. The Developmental Analysis of Individual Differences on Multiple Measures
• CHAPTER 12. Methodological Problems in Descriptive Developmental Research on Adulthood and Aging
• CHAPTER 13. The Interfaces of Acquisition: Models and Methods for Studying the Active, Developing Organism
• CHAPTER 14. Cognitive Assessment across the Life-Span: Methodological Implications of the Organismic Approach
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index