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Life-Span Developmental Psychology
Methodological Issues
1st Edition - January 28, 1973
Editors: John R. Nesselroade, Hayne W. Reese
Language: English
eBook ISBN:9781483274751
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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
List of Contributors
Preface
1. Developmental Psychology and Society: Some Historical and Ethical Considerations
I. Social, Political, and Economic Bases of the Developmental Sciences
II. Phenomenal, Logical, and Existential Bases of Sciences and Knowledge
2. The Early Development of Parent-Young Interaction in Nature
I. Introduction
II. Incubation and Hatching
III. Conclusion
3. Methodological Issues of Cross-Cultural Research in Developmental Psychology
I. Introduction
II. Toward a Definition of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Cross-Cultural Research
III. The Contingency between Cross-Cultural Psychology and Life-Span Developmental Psychology
IV. Operationalization of the Culture Concept
V. The Problem of Data Comparability
VI. Requirements for a Cross-Cultural Research Strategy in Developmental Psychology
4. Models of Development: Methodological Implications
I Introduction
II. Models
III. Basic Categories in the Mechanistic and Organismic Models
IV. Corollary Model Issues
V. Functional Corollary Model Issues
VI. Summary and Conclusions
5. Research Strategies and Measurement Methods for Investigating Human Development
I. Change Scores
II. Experimental Designs for the Study of Age Functions
III. Some Major Problems in Psychometric Theory for Life-Span Research
IV. Summarizing Comments and Guesses about Future Developments
6. Unraveling Maturational and Learning Development by the Comparative MA VA and Structured Learning Approaches
I. Two Proposed Technical Innovations and Their Associated Models
II. The Convarkin and MA VA Methods of Genothreptic Analysis
III. Estimating Genetic and Threptic Parts of an Individual's Score through Regression on Real World Influences: Comparative MAVA
IV. Amalgamated and Divisive Source Trait Models: The Divisive Possibility of Directly Factoring Out Nature and Nurture Components
V. Assistance from Structured Learning Theory and the Successive Investment Theory
VI. The Maturation-Learning (or Volution-Threption) Contrast Method of Isolating Genetic and Environmental Influence Effects
VII. Summary
7. Assessment of Developmental Factor Change at the Individual and Group Level
I. Introduction
II. Methods of Analysis
III. Technical Considerations
8. Strategies for Analyzing Behavioral Change Over Time
9. The Control of Developmental Process: Why Wait?
I. Introduction
II. Developmental Research and Behavior Modification
III. Summary
10. Behavioral Ecology and Experimental Analysis: Courtship Is Not Enough
I. Introduction
II. Ecological-Experimental Polemics
III. Behavior in Ecological Perspective
IV. Experimental Analysis
V. More Than Courtship
VI. Concluding Comments
11. The Developmental Analysis of Individual Differences on Multiple Measures
I. Introduction
II. Basic Concepts and Methods
III. Comparative Factor Analytic Models and Developmental Change
IV. Sample Case: Ontogeny of Intelligence
V. Organism-Environment Interactions as a Source for Structural Change: A Simulation Experiment
VI. Concluding Commentary
12. Methodological Problems in Descriptive Developmental Research on Adulthood and Aging
I. Introduction
II. Some Questions Related to Sampling and Generalizability
III. Models of Aging and Resulting Research Strategies
IV. Within Cohort (Longitudinal) Studies of Adult Development
V. Between Cohort (Cross-Sectional) Studies of Adult Development
VI. Some Comments on Research Priorities in the Study of Adult Development
13. The Interfaces of Acquisition: Models and Methods for Studying the Active, Developing Organism
I. Introduction
II. Developmental Processes and the Specificity of Habits and Skills
III. Higher-Order Skills and Life-Span Processes
IV. The Development of Enactive and Inhibitory Skills over the Life Span
V. Methodological Implications for Developmental Research
14. Cognitive Assessment across the Life-Span: Methodological Implications of the Organismic Approach
I. Introduction
II. The Organismic View of Developmental Change
III. Qualitative Analysis
IV. Research Related to the Stage Construct
V. Implications for Future Research
VI. The Role of Training-Intervention Research
References
Author Index
Subject Index
No. of pages: 380
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: January 28, 1973
Imprint: Academic Press
eBook ISBN: 9781483274751
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