The Biologising of Childhood: Developmental Psychology and the Darwinian Myth

ISBN-13: 9781138037830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 278 str.

John R. Morss

Opis

Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate an evaluate the role played by biology in its most influential formulations.

Spis treści

Foreword.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction  2. Charles Darwin and the Origins of Developmental Psychology  3. Biology and the Developmentalists: Hall, Baldwin, and Freud  4. Biology and the Developmentalists: Vygotsky, Piaget, and Werner  5. ‘The Prisoner of the Senses’: Sensationism in Developmental Thinking  6. Infancy  7. Childhood  8. Adolescence  9. Models and Processes  10. Biology and Alternatives to Biology in Contemporary Developmental Psychology  11. Conclusions.  References.  Reference Notes.  Author Index.  Subject Index.