{"product_id":"exploring-developmental-theories-hardback","title":"Exploring Developmental Theories - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough 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. \u003ci\u003eExploring Developmental Theories\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExploring Developmental Theories:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*examines the concepts of stage, structure, and systems; organismic theory; and general system theory;\u003cbr\u003e*analyzes open and closed systems as well as organismic and mechanistic world views;\u003cbr\u003e*integrates the concepts associated with organismic and mechanist world views;\u003cbr\u003e*examines learning mechanisms and processes that foster the acquisition of behavior, and\u003cbr\u003e*discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Gessel, Piaget, and behaviorism in accounting for behavioral development. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45548503040238,"sku":"9780898599374","price":60.79,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/exploring-developmental-theories-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}