Conceptions of Development - Lessons from the Laboratory (Paperback)

This is a volume about the process of scientific discovery. Thirteen leading senior scientists, each interested in some aspect of behavioral development, recount their intellectual journeys over the course of their careers and document their individual struggles to better understand and describe various developmental phenomena. Covering a broad range of topics, including perceptual, motor, social, and cognitive development, the contributors to this volume provide case-studies of how one pursues a long-term, systematic research program and how scientists continually formulate and reformulate their working conceptual frameworks based on their research results.
Conceptions of Development provides a unique and personal, "behind-the-scenes" account of the process of scientific discovery, illustrating that useful and enduring scientific insight derives from the bidirectional interplay between empirical work and theory formulation.
This volume will be of interest to a broad audience consisting not only of psychologists and psychobiologists interested in the study of development, but also teachers and students interested in behavioral development and its investigation, and the general reader interested in the process of scientific discovery.

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General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	D. J. Lewkowicz • R. Lickliter
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	365
ISBN-13:	978-0-86377-681-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Behavioural theory (Behaviourism) Promotions
LSN:	0-86377-681-7
Barcode:	9780863776816

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