Evolving Explanations of Development
Subtitle: Ecological Approaches to Organism-Environment Systems
Contributors: Cathy Dent-Read (Editor); Patricia Zukow-Goldring (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9781557983824
Subjects: Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Child & developmental psychology; Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Psychotherapy - General; Developmental - General; Mental Health; Environmental psychology
Table of contents: value: Table of Contents  List of Contributors  Preface     1. Introduction: Ecological Realism, Dynamic Systems, and Epigenetic Systems Approaches to Development       —Cathy Dent-Read and Patricia Zukow-Goldring    2. An Ecological Psychologist's Prolegomena for Perceptual Development: A Functional Approach       —Eleanor J. Gibson  I. Ecological Realism     3. An Ecological Approach to Infants' Perception of Intonation Contours as Meaningful Aspects of Speech       —Robin Panneton Cooper           * Comment on Cooper             —Timothy D. Johnston    4. Early Development of the Ecological Self       —Philippe Rochat           * Comment on Rochat             —Paula Fitzpatrick    5. Change and Variation in Responses to Perceptual Information       —Nancy de Villiers Rader           * Comment on Rader             —Edward S. Reed    6. On the Early Development of Predictive Abilities       —Claes von Hofsten           * Comment on von Hofsten             —Karl M. Newell    7. A Social Ecological Realist Approach to the Emergence of the Lexicon: Educating Attention to Amodal Invariants in Gesture and Speech       —Patricia Zukow-Goldring           * Comment on Zukow-Goldring             —Timothy D. Johnston    8. A Naturalistic Study of Metaphor Development: Seeing and Seeing As       —Cathy Dent-Read           * Comment on Dent-Read             —Katherine A. Loveland    9. The Development of Tool Use: Changing Boundaries Between Organism and Environment       —A. W. Smitsman           * Comment on Smitsman             —Edward S. Reed   10. Perceptual Learning, Categorizing, and Cognitive Development       —Anne D. Pick           * Comment on Pick             —Karl M. Newell  II. Dynamic Systems    11. A Dynamical Systems Perspective on the Development of Complex Adaptive Skill       —Jane E. Clark           * Comment on Clark             —Karl M. Newell   12. Information, Creativity, and Culture       —Alan Fogel           * Comment on Fogel             —Reuben M. Baron and Endre Kadar  III. Epigenetic Systems    13. The Effects of Nonobvious Forms of Experience on the Development of Instinctive Behavior       —David B. Miller           * Comment on Miller             —Timothy D. Johnston   14. Perspectives on an Ecological Approach to Social Communicative Development in Infancy       —James A. Green and Gwen E. Gustafson           * Comment on Green and Gustafson             —Timothy D. Johnston  Epilogue: Where Does the Animal End and the Environment Begin…And End? —Patricia Zukow-Goldring and Cathy Dent-Read  Author Index  Subject Index  About the Editors