Exploring Developmental Theories

Through the evaluation and integration of developmental theories, this volume proposes a new structural/behavioral model of development. Dr. Horowitz’s model helps account for both the behavioral development of children (with extensions across the life-span) and for the universal and non-universal characteristics in human behavioral development. <i>Exploring Developmental Theories</i> also sheds a new and different light on the nature- nurture or heredity-environment controversy and on the topic of continuity and discontinuity in development. <br> <br><i>Exploring Developmental Theories:</i> <br>*examines the concepts of stage, structure, and systems; organismic theory; and general system theory;<br>*analyzes open and closed systems as well as organismic and mechanistic world views;<br>*integrates the concepts associated with organismic and mechanist world views;<br>*examines learning mechanisms and processes that foster the acquisition of behavior, and<br>*discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Gessel, Piaget, and behaviorism in accounting for behavioral development. <br>