The concept of development

University of Minnesota Press

1957

x, 287 p.

[1.] Issues in the study of development: Problems in formulating a scientific concept of development / by Dale B. Harris -- Determinism and development / by Ernest Nagel -- Dynamics of development: systems in process / by John E. Anderson -- [2.] Biology and growth: The concept of "development" in biology / by Viktor Hamburger -- The genetic and environmental differentiation of behavior / by J.P. Scott -- The concept of development in comparative psychology / by T.C. Schneirla -- A descriptive concept of physical development / by Howard V. Meredith -- [3.] The development of human behavior: The concept of development from a comparative and organismic point of view / by Heinz Werner -- Identification as a form of behavioral development / by Robert R. Sears -- An experimental psychology of development: pipe dream or possibility? / by Wallace A. Russell -- [4.] The concept of development in the humanities and social sciences: Organism and humanism: an empirical view / by Norman J. DeWitt -- Clio puts the question / by Herbert Heaton -- Evolution and development: a view of anthropology / by Robert F. Spencer -- [5.] Social applications of the developmental concept: Significance of growth and development to the practicing physician / by John A. Anderson -- The relation between early childhood development and psychopathology / by Hyman S. Lippman -- The concept of development which underlies the social work helping process / by John C. Kidneigh -- Developmental theory in education / by Willard C. Olson

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