Understanding Human Development

Dialogues with Lifespan Psychology

AvUrsula M. Staudinger,Ulman E.R. Lindenberger

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Understanding developmental processes in the individual as well as in aggregates of individuals is an important aim of many of the social and behavioural sciences. This book presents a theoretical framework for this endeavour - an architecture for the study of human development across different disciplines. This architecture describes two major sources of human development (biology and culture) and posits three central developmental mechanisms (selection, optimization, and compensation).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-01-31
Mått:178 x 254 x 29 mm
Vikt:810 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:519
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN:9781402073830

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Barnpsykologi och utvecklingspsykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Innehållsförteckning

1 Why Read Another Book on Human Development? Understanding Human Development Takes a Metatheory and Multiple Disciplines.- I The Overall Architecture of Lifespan Development.- 2 On the Incomplete Architecture of Human Ontogeny: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Foundation of Developmental Theory.- 3 Age Differences in Evolutionary Selection Benefits.- 4 Age Differences in Cultural Efficiency: Secular Trends in Longevity.- II Basic Processes of Lifespan Development: Selective Optimization with Compensation (Soc).- 5 The Process of Successful Aging: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation.- 6 Intentionality and Time in Human Development and Aging: Compensation and Goal Adjustment in Changing Developmental Contexts.- 7 An Economic Perspective on Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (Soc).- III A Lifespan View of Self and Personality.- 8 Completing the Psychobiological Architecture of Human Personality Development: Temperament, Character, and Coherence.- 9 The Cumulative Continuity Model of Personality Development: Striking a Balance between Continuity and Change in Personality Traits Across the Life Course.- 10 The Gain-Loss Dynamic in Lifespan Development: Implications for Change in Self and Personality During old and Very old Age.- IV A Lifespan View of Intelligence and Cognition.- 11 Enablement and Constraint.- 12 Interrelations of Aging, Knowledge, and Cognitive Performance.- 13 Formal Models of Age Differences in Task-Complexity Effects.- V At the Frontiers of Lifespan Methodology.- 14 Structuring and Measuring Change over the Life Span.- 15 The Relationship between the Structure of Interindividual And Intraindividual Variability: a Theoretical and Empirical Vindication of Developmental Systems Theory.- 16 Combining Molecular and Quantitative Genetics: Decomposing The Architecture of Lifespan Development.- VI The Future of Lifespan Psychology: Comments from Related Fields and Neighboring Disciplines.- 17 The Future of Lifespan Developmental Psychology: Perspectives from Control Theory.- 18 Without Gender, Without Self.- 19 Contributions of Lifespan Psychology to the Future Elaboration of Developmental Systems Theory.- 20 The Adaptive Toolbox and Lifespan Development: Common Questions?.- 21 The Nature-Nurture Problem Revisited.- 22 Secondary School as a Constraint for Adolescent Development.- 23 The Sociology of the Life Course and Lifespan Psychology: Diverging or Converging Pathways?.- 24 Philosophy or the Search for Anthropological Constants.- Author Index.