{"product_id":"exploring-developmental-theories-toward-a-structural-behavioral-model-of-development-9780898599381","title":"Exploring Developmental Theories: Toward A Structural\/Behavioral Model of Development","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Frances Degen Horowitz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Inc\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Psychology Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Developmental - General\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46930910412951,"sku":"9780898599381","price":2152.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780898599381.webp?v=1771609770","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/exploring-developmental-theories-toward-a-structural-behavioral-model-of-development-9780898599381","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}