Human development from early childhood to early adulthood
Subtitle: findings from a 20 year longitudinal study
By: [edited by] Wolfgang Schneider and Merry Bullock.
Contributors: Schneider, Wolfgang, 1950 June 19-; Bullock, Merry.
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780805861075; 9780805861082; 9780203888544
Subjects: Child psychology; Developmental psychology
Description: Data generated from longitudinal studies allow researchers to better understand how context and experience interact with stable characteristics of the developing person over time. This book summarizes a landmark longitudinal study of 200 children, from the ages of 3 to 23. The Munich Longitudinal Study on the Ontogenesis of Individual Competencies (LOGIC) examined the development of individual differences over time and whether it is possible to predict later competencies from earlier ones. Offering a snapshot of theory and data on personality, social, motor, moral, and cognitive development, the contributors help us understand which individual differences can and cannot be altered through schooling and other experiences and how differences seen in the earliest stages are later reflected in adulthood. The results provide insight into the strengths and limitations of early prediction of individual differences. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview: Goals and structure of logic / Merry Bullock & Wolfgang Schneider; title: Development of intelligence and thinking / Wolfgang Schneider, Jan Stefanek & Frank Niklas; title: Developmental changes and individual stability of motor abilities from preschool to young adulthood / Jutta Ahnert, Wolfgang Schneider & Klaus Bös; title: Verbal memory development from early childhood to early adulthood / Wolfgang Schneider, Monika Knopf & Beate Sodian; title: Moral motivation from childhood to early adulthood / Gertrud Nunner-Winkler; title: Personality trajectories from early childhood through emerging adulthood / Jens B. Asendorpf, Jaap J. A. Denissen & Marcel A. G. van Aken; title: Development of self-confidence from adolescence to early adulthood / Friedrich-Wilhelm Schrader & Andreas Helmke; title: Doing experiments and understanding science : development of scientific reasoning from childhood to adulthood / Merry Bullock, Beate Sodian & Susanne Koerber; title: The development of reading and spelling : relevant precursors, developmental changes and individual differences / Wolfgang Schneider; title: The development of mathematical competencies : sources of individual differences and their developmental trajectories / Elsbeth Stern; title: Epilogue: Problems and potentials of the Munich Longitudinal Study / Wolfgang Schneider & Merry Bullock.