The psychology of early childhood.
"A well-balanced treatment of child psychology should bring the student an appreciation of the complex roles of developmental or maturational factors and of learning in child development. It should help the student to see the importance of individual differences, both at a given age and in patt...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Knopf,
1958.
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| Edition: | First edition]. |
| Series: | Knopf publications in psychology: the general series.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "A well-balanced treatment of child psychology should bring the student an appreciation of the complex roles of developmental or maturational factors and of learning in child development. It should help the student to see the importance of individual differences, both at a given age and in patterns of development. It should help him to see the interrelationships of traits and the role of the family environment and of other environmental agencies, as the child moves forward from infancy into early and later childhood. Above all, it should be oriented toward the results of research, with a commonsense rather than a prescriptive or dogmatic attitude in suggesting the application of these results in individual cases. These requirements are met in the present book. Child psychology is a field of study with its own characteristic problems, theories, and methods. Dr. Landreth treats this field as one that is not yet fully structured and integrated. It includes areas of exploration as well as areas of systematic theory. It is best understood, and the behavior and development of individuals is usually better understood, by students who are not too exclusively devoted to a single theoretical point of view. In some of the older sciences much of the material in a textbook has been public property for a long time, and has achieved a more or less standard formulation. This is less true of such a discipline as child psychology, which rests so largely on contributions of the past two or three decades. With so large a proportion of the studies being recently done, the summarizer has a difficult task of selecting, organizing, and making a clear and interesting presentation. The present volume is an example of how this can be done"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |