How developmental psychologists make their ideas clearer
Article Abstract:
The development of developmental or child psychology was characterized by three successive phases beginning with G. Stanley Hall's theories on the link between child development and evolution in the 1890s and 1900s. The first handbooks on child psychology such as 'Child Development' and 'American Journal of Orthopsychiatry' were published in the 1930s. Hall's handbook entitled 'Pedagogical Seminary' has been renamed 'Journal of Genetic Psychology.' Furthermore, the handbooks reflect the interconnected development of the theories and methods of child psychology.
Publication Name: Human Development
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0018-716X
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Developmental psychology as an ethical enterprise
Article Abstract:
Brian Vandenberg's support of Levinas' philosophy brings to the surface the question of whether a moral orientation and ethical sentiments towards others are inherent in human psychology. Levinas provides a contemporary analysis of the ethical meaning of psychological research. His kind of approach shifts from the investigation of behavior to an assessment of conduct. The sensitive analyses of Levinas' and other philosophers' works will help highlight the moral and political projects embedded in developmental psychology.
Publication Name: Human Development
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0018-716X
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Between Biology and History: Ruminations on Selfhood
Article Abstract:
Reflections by H.G. Wells on the nature of selfhood are discussed. Topics include Wells's belief in evolution by natural selection, his views on death and immortality, the self's continuity and discontinuity, the immortality of ideas, and the nature of the individual.
Publication Name: Human Development
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0018-716X
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: A developmental perspective on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Putting DSM-IV in perspective
- Abstracts: Projectives and their infirm research base. Psychology in health care: future directions. A cuationary study: unwarranted interpretations of the Draw-A-Person Test
- Abstracts: Content validity in psychological assessment: a functional approach to concepts and methods. Dynamical models for psychological assessment: phase space functions
- Abstracts: The development of phonological rules and visual strategies in average and poor spellers. Orthographic representation and phonemic segmentation in skilled readers: a cross-language comparison
- Abstracts: Effects of judgement on memory: experiments in recognition bias and process dissociation in a professional judgment task