Norms in human development
By: edited by Leslie Smith and Jacques Vonèche.
Contributors: Smith, Leslie, 1943-; Vonèche, J. Jacques.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Developmental psychology.; Social norms.
Description: The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. This text considers conventional 20th century approaches to psychology, arguing that human development is a norm-laden process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Norms in human development: introduction / Leslie Smith; title: The implicit normativity of developmental psychology / Jacques Vonèche; title: Developmental normativity and normative development / Mark H. Bickhard; title: Genetic epistemology: naturalistic epistemology vs normative epistemology / Richard F. Kitchener; title: Norms and normative facts in human development / Leslie Smith; title: Contextualizing moral judgment: challenges of interrelating the normative (ought judgments) and the descriptive (knowledge of facts), the cognitive and the affective / Lutz H. Eckensberger; title: The development of obligations and responsibilities in cultural context / Monika Keller; title: The multiplicity of social norms: the case for psychological constructivism and social epistemologies / Elliot Turiel; title: Can psychology by a quantitative science, or is Kant right after all? Normative issues in psychometrics / Peter C.M. Molenaar; title: Norms and intuitions in the assessment of chance / Vittorio Girotto and Michel Gonzalez; title: Making conditional inferences: the interplay between knowledge and logic / Henry Markovits.