Advancing Developmental Science
Author | : Anthony S. Dick |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781351704557 |
ISBN-13 | : 1351704559 |
Rating | : 4/5 (559 Downloads) |
Download or read book Advancing Developmental Science written by Anthony S. Dick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field dedicated to describing, understanding, and explaining change in behavior across the lifespan and the psychological, environmental, and biological processes that co-determine this change during the organism’s development. Developmental science is thus a broad discipline that lies at the intersection of psychology, biology, sociology, anthropology and other allied disciplines. Advancing Developmental Science: Philosophy, Theory, and Method reflects this broad view of developmental science, and reviews the philosophical, theoretical, and methodological issues facing the field. It does so within the Process-Relational paradigm, as described by developmentalist Willis Overton over the course of his career. Within that framework, this book explores development in a number of specific cognitive, neurobiological, and social domains, and provides students and researchers with a comprehensive suite of conceptual and methodological tools to describe, explain, and optimize intraindividual change across the lifespan.