Ideal for anyone looking for a lucid, engaging, and balanced overview of child development, Miller offers the most current and comprehensive presentation of developmental psychology theory available today. The thoughtful scholarship includes an evaluation of each theory's strengths and weaknesses as well as excerpts from the theorists' work. INDICE: Preface - Introduction - Piaget's Cognitive-Stage Theory and the Neo-Piagetians - Freud's and Erikson's Psychoanalytic Theories - Vygotsky and the Sociocultural Approach - Social-Learning Theory - Information-Processing Theory - Ethology and other Evolutionary Theories - Gibson's Ecological Theory of Perceptual Development - Contemporary Minitheories and Emerging Approaches - Reflections
- ISBN: 978-1-4292-1634-0
- Editorial: W.H. Freeman
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 518
- Fecha Publicación: 26/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés