Longitudinal Research on Individual Development - Present Status and Future Perspectives

Klappentext This book examines the scope for longitudinal studies in a range of developmental fields. Zusammenfassung This book examines the scope for longitudinal studies in a range of developmental fields! emphasizing the advantages of this approach for the investigation of causal mechanisms and processes and the dynamics of development over the lifespan. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of principal contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1. Human ontogeny: a longitudinal perspective D. Magnusson; 2. Genes, experience and development S. Scarr; 3. The human brain and longitudinal research in human development P. Casaer; 4. Longitudinal research and a biology of human brain development and behaviour V. S. Caviness, P. A. Filipek and D. N. Kennedy; 5. Cognitive, social and emotional development F. E. Weinert and W. Schneider; 6. Developmental psychopathology: some historical and current perspectives N. Garmezy; 7. Developmental psychopathogy as a research perspective M. Rutter; 8. Longitudinal research on human aging: the power of combining real-time, microgenetic and simulation approaches A. Kruse, U. Lindenberger and P. B. Baltes; 9. Development, aging and control: empirical and theoretical issues J. Brandtstädter; 10. Some methodological issues in longitudinal research: looking ahead L. R. Bergman; Index.

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• Authors: David Magnusson, David (Stockholms Universitet) Casaer Magnusson, David Casaer Magnusson
• Assisted by: Paul Casaer (Editor), David Magnusson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521034531
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03453-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: European Network on Longitudin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Basic principles; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works