Advancing Developmental Science: Philosophy, Theory, and Method Contributor(s): Dick, Anthony S. (Editor), Müller, Ulrich (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138960039 ISBN-13: 9781138960039 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Developmental - General |
Dewey: 155 |
LCCN: 2017001479 |
Physical Information: 270 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field dedicated to describing, understanding, and explaining change in behavior across the lifespan and the psychological, environmental, and biological processes that co-determine this change during the organism's development. Developmental science is thus a broad discipline that lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and other allied disciplines. Advancing Developmental Science: Philosophy, Theory, and Method reflects this broad view of developmental science, and reviews the philosophical, theoretical, and methodological issues facing the field. It does so within the Process-Relational paradigm, as described by developmentalist Willis Overton over the course of his career. Within that framework, this book explores development in a number of specific cognitive, neurobiological, and social domains, and provides students and researchers with a comprehensive suite of conceptual and methodological tools to describe, explain, and optimize intraindividual change across the lifespan. |