Wohlwill / Palermo The Study of Behavioral Development

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7653-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Web PDF

The Child Psychology Series: The Study of Behavioral Development concerns the formulation of general laws of development, transcending the realm of the development of the individual from infancy to maturity. This book provides a systematic treatment of problems of research design, strategy, and data analysis that relate specifically to the study of developmental changes in behavior. The topics discussed include developmental psychology in the 1970s, age variable in psychological research, and programmatic view of the task of developmental psychology. The problems of measurement and quantification in developmental psychology, correlational methods in the study of developmental change, and experimental manipulation of developmental change are also elaborated. This publication is recommended for psychologists, specialists, and students learning the nature of behavioral change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wohlwill, Joachim F.

Palermo, David S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;The Study of Behavioral Development;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Dedication;5
6;Preface;10
7;Acknowledgments;12
8;PART I: INTRODUCTION;16
8.1;CHAPTER I. Developmental Psychology, Past and Present;18
8.1.1;A Brief Historical Sketch;19
8.1.2;Developmental Psychology in the 1970s;23
8.1.3;Developmental Psychology: Experimental or Differential?;29
8.2;CHAPTER II. The Age Variable in Psychological Research;33
8.2.1;The Focus on Change and Its Implications;33
8.2.2;Change as an Inherent Aspect of Behavior;37
8.2.3;Some Further Objections to the Use of Age as a Variable in Psychology;39
8.2.4;Age as a Neutral Variable : Vice or Virtue?;42
8.2.5;The Age Variable and the Problem of Control in Differential Studies;43
8.2.6;The Concept of the Developmental Function;47
8.3;CHAPTER III. Beyond Age-Group Comparison: A Programmatic View of the Task of Developmental Psychology;51
8.3.1;A Hierarchical Model for the Study of Developmental Problems;54
9;PART II: Quantification, Dimensionalization, and Design;62
9.1;CHAPTER IV. Problems of Measurement and Quantification in Developmental Psychology;64
9.1.1;Four Prototype Cases in the Measurement of Developmental Change;65
9.1.2;The Qualitative versus Quantitative Character of Developmental Change;73
9.1.3;Major Obstacles in the Way of Quantitative Analysis of Developmental Change;82
9.1.4;Units in the Measurement of Developmental Change;88
9.2;CHAPTER V. The Dimensionalization of Development: The Discovery and Definition of Developmental Dimensions;95
9.2.1;The Dimensionalization of Development Illustrated for Three Response Variables;96
9.2.2;The Search for Developmental Dimensions;102
9.2.3;Conclusion;111
9.3;CHAPTERVI. The Dimensionalization of Development (Continued): The Construction of Developmental Scales;112
9.3.1;Four Steps in the Construction of Developmental Scales;112
9.3.2;The Dimensionalization of Qualitative Changes;118
9.3.3;The Two Models of Scalogram Analysis: Cumulative and Disjunctive;125
9.3.4;The Use of Scalogram Analysis for the Study of Developmental Sequences (Case III Data);131
10;PART III: MAJOR PARADIGMS OF DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH;136
10.1;CHAPTER VII. Longitudinal versus Cross-Sectional Methodology;137
10.1.1;Cross-Sectional Designs: Shortcut or Short-Change?;139
10.1.2;Two- versus Three-Factor Models in the Design of Developmental Research;140
10.1.3;Purposes of Longitudinal Data;155
10.1.4;Major Drawbacks of the Longitudinal Method;159
10.1.5;Shortcuts to Longitudinal Data;164
10.2;CHAPTER VIII. The Descriptive Study of Developmental Change;173
10.2.1;Charting the Course of Developmental Change along Scalar Dimensions;175
10.2.2;Descriptive Analysis with Respect to Qualitative Change;194
10.3;CHAPTER IX. The Study of Developmental Stages;205
10.3.1;Stage as a Horizontal-Structure Concept;206
10.3.2;Models for the Analysis of Developmental-Stage Data;219
10.3.3;Prototype Response Matrices and Illustrative Examples for Each Model;230
10.3.4;Approaches to Data Analysis in the Study of Stages;233
10.3.5;Conclusion: Stages—Mirage or Reality?;251
10.4;CHAPTER X. Correlational Methods in the Study of Developmental Change;255
10.4.1;Five Levels of Elaboration in the Multivariate Study of Age Changes;256
10.4.2;Conclusion: The Place of Correlational Analysis in the Study of the Patterning of Developmental Chang;301
10.5;CHAPTER XI. The Experimental Manipulation of Developmental Change;304
10.5.1;Four Paradigms of Experimental-Developmental Research;304
10.5.2;Major Problems in the Design of Research on the Effects of Controlled Experience;314
10.5.3;Problems of Control and Behavior Monitoring in Early Experience Research;329
10.5.4;The Problem of Causal Inference in Experimental Studies of Development;332
10.5.5;The Acquisition of Conservation: The Acceleration Approach to the Interpretation of a Developmental Phenomenon;335
10.5.6;Conclusion: The Dilemma of the Conservation-training Study;346
10.6;CHAPTER XII. Individual Differences in Development;348
10.6.1;The Development of Cognitive Styles: Developmental or Differential?;349
10.6.2;Individual Differences as an Aspect of Developmental Functions;357
10.6.3;The Study of Stability and Continuity in Behavior;373
10.6.4;Stability in the Multivariate Sense;383
10.6.5;Concluding Comments;388
11;CONCLUSION;391
12;REFERENCES;396
13;Author Index;418
14;Subject Index;425