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THE DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS:
Research Adventures Across The Lifespan
- Matthew R. Merrens, STATE UNIV COLL-PLATTSBURGH
- Gary G. Brannigan, STATE UNIV COLL-PLATTSBURGH
ISBN: 0-07-007259-0 / 1996 / Softcover / 310 pgs
Overview
The Developmental Psychologists: Research Adventures Across the Lifespan follows upon the success of The Undaunted Psychologist: Adventures in Research and The Social Psychologists: Research Adventures. In The Developmental Psychologists, as in the previous books, the authors give the reader an "insiders" view on the process of how psychological research takes place.
The Developmental Psychologists is a dynamic collection of personal adventures that will help bring to life and enrich the material presented in a typical human development course. Contributors have provided lively accounts covering a broad range of topics that closely parallel texts in developmental psychology.
As students read about the experiences of each contributor, they will begin to see how these researchers encountered significant ant issues and developed research strategies to study them. The contributors show the interactions between one's personal life and career and how the two are often woven together in an interesting and successful manner. The contributors tell how they encountered research issues that were especially interesting, unique, and/or problematic, and that demanded some form of resolution or understanding. In the process they provide an insider's view of developmental research by stressing critical thinking and problem solving aspects of research, as well as the personal and situational factors that influence decisions making
Features
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The perfect supplement for any developmental psychology course.
Contributors were chosen for the excellence of their contributions to developmental psychology and also for their ability to communicate to readers.
Although each chapter has its own flavor, each contributor gives the reader a view of the researcher as a person dealing with the planning, design and methodology of scientific inquiry.
This text gives the student personal insight into the process of research in developmental psychology, and communicates the excitement and enthusiasm of the research.
Each chapter is written in a lively and compelling narrative style.
This book ultimately tells students the story of becoming a developmental psychologist.
Unlike any other book on the market, The Developmental Psychologists shows researchers as "real people" who stumble, make mistakes and ultimately overcome obstacles and achieve success.
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER 1: Nature and Nurture--Robert Plomin
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CHAPTER 2: The Improvising Infant: Learning About Learning to Move--Esther Thelen
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CHAPTER 3: In Pursuit of Receptive Language--John Neil Bohannon
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CHAPTER 4: Looking Backward and Forward for the Causes and Consequences of Child Maltreatment--Byron Egeland
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CHAPTER 5: Attachment and Emotional Development: From Clinic to Research to Policy--Ross A. Thompson
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CHAPTER 6: In Search of the Good Heart--Nancy Eisenberg
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CHAPTER 7: Falling into Gender-Role Research--Beverly I. Fagout
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CHAPTER 8: The Uses of Academic Conflict--David Elkind
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CHAPTER 9: Father, Play and Emotion: A Research Odyssey--Ross D. Parke
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CHAPTER 10: Unexpected Opportunities: Confessions of an Eclectic Developmentalist--Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
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CHAPTER 11: Is One Sex Morally Superior?--Lawrence J. Walker
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CHAPTER 12: The Impact of Employment on Adolescent Development--Laurence Steinberg
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CHAPTER 13: The Contextual History of My Research on Adolescent Temperament--Jacqueline V. Lerner
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CHAPTER 14: The Return of Sherlock Holmes: A Pilgrim's Programs in Memory and Aging Research--Cameron J. Camp
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CHAPTER 15: The Natural History of a Longitudinal Study--K. Warner Schaie
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CHAPTER 16: Socioemotional Selectivity: A Life-Span Developmental Account of Social Behavior--Laura L. Carstensen
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CHAPTER 17: Stress and Adaptation in Adulthood--David A. Chiraboga
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CHAPTER 18: The Cave at the End of the World: How the Unknowing Studied the Unknowable--Robert Kastenbaum
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