Lifespan Developmental Systems : Meta-theory, methodology and the study of applied problems /
Skinner, Ellen A.
Lifespan Developmental Systems : Meta-theory, methodology and the study of applied problems / Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann & Andrew J. Mashburn - 389 p.
1 Getting Straight on the Goals of Developmental Science
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS META-THEORIES
Section I: How Are Unexamined Assumptions Shaping Developmental Science?
2 "Understanding" Theories: Why It’s Important and How to Do It
3 Dueling Theories of Attachment and Why They Are Fighting
4 Uncovering Assumptions We Hold about Human Development
5 Is Human Development a Tree, a Machine, a Butterfly, or a Dance?
6 Contrasting Meta-theories: Friends or Enemies?
Section II: How Can Contextual Approaches Enrich Our Understanding of Development?
7 Lifespan Developmental Paradigm Shift: Developing People in Changing Contexts
8 Ecological Revolutions: Alive and Well and Living in Multi-level Partially Nested Contexts
9 The Bioecological Model Reinvented: Proximal Processes as the Engines of Development
10 Transactional Dialectical Advice: Qualitative Shifts and the Ice Cream Cone in a Can
Section III: What More Does a Lifespan Developmental Systems Perspective Have to Offer?
11 Relational Developmental Systems Meta-theories: Walking with Complementarities
12 Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Meta-theories: Much Convergence but Still Feuding?
13 Putting It All Together I: The Big Developmental Systems Ideas of Levels and Engines
14 Putting It All Together II: The Big Developmental Systems Idea of Dynamics
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS METHODOLOGIES
Section IV: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Description
15 The Assumptions in Your Hammer: How Meta-theories Shape Methods and Vice Versa
16 Adding Development to Designs: Cross-sectional, Longitudinal, and Cross-sequential Designs
17 Crossing Developmental Boundaries I: Sampling Equivalence and Selection
18 Crossing Developmental Boundaries II: Measurement Equivalence and "Developmentally-friendly" Conceptualizations
Section V: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Explanation
19 Building a Time Machine I: Lab and Field Experimental Designs
20 Building a Time Machine II: Naturalistic Designs and Causal Inferences
21 Looking under the Hood I: Proximal Processes and Sequential Observations
22 Looking under the Hood II: Intra-individual Time Series, Episodes, and Trajectories
23 Whole Persons in Complex Contexts: Person-centered Approaches
Section VI: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Optimization
24 Developing Contexts: Weather, Co-adaptation, and Attunement
25 Developing Brains: Experience and Neuroplasticity
26 Developing Individuals: Transformations and Branching Cascades
27 Multiple Lines of Sight: Converging Operations and Open Minds
Afterword: The Journey Continues
Index
9781138316652
Developmental biology, Developmental neurophysiology, Developmental psychology
155 / SKI
Lifespan Developmental Systems : Meta-theory, methodology and the study of applied problems / Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas A. Kindermann & Andrew J. Mashburn - 389 p.
1 Getting Straight on the Goals of Developmental Science
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS META-THEORIES
Section I: How Are Unexamined Assumptions Shaping Developmental Science?
2 "Understanding" Theories: Why It’s Important and How to Do It
3 Dueling Theories of Attachment and Why They Are Fighting
4 Uncovering Assumptions We Hold about Human Development
5 Is Human Development a Tree, a Machine, a Butterfly, or a Dance?
6 Contrasting Meta-theories: Friends or Enemies?
Section II: How Can Contextual Approaches Enrich Our Understanding of Development?
7 Lifespan Developmental Paradigm Shift: Developing People in Changing Contexts
8 Ecological Revolutions: Alive and Well and Living in Multi-level Partially Nested Contexts
9 The Bioecological Model Reinvented: Proximal Processes as the Engines of Development
10 Transactional Dialectical Advice: Qualitative Shifts and the Ice Cream Cone in a Can
Section III: What More Does a Lifespan Developmental Systems Perspective Have to Offer?
11 Relational Developmental Systems Meta-theories: Walking with Complementarities
12 Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Meta-theories: Much Convergence but Still Feuding?
13 Putting It All Together I: The Big Developmental Systems Ideas of Levels and Engines
14 Putting It All Together II: The Big Developmental Systems Idea of Dynamics
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS METHODOLOGIES
Section IV: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Description
15 The Assumptions in Your Hammer: How Meta-theories Shape Methods and Vice Versa
16 Adding Development to Designs: Cross-sectional, Longitudinal, and Cross-sequential Designs
17 Crossing Developmental Boundaries I: Sampling Equivalence and Selection
18 Crossing Developmental Boundaries II: Measurement Equivalence and "Developmentally-friendly" Conceptualizations
Section V: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Explanation
19 Building a Time Machine I: Lab and Field Experimental Designs
20 Building a Time Machine II: Naturalistic Designs and Causal Inferences
21 Looking under the Hood I: Proximal Processes and Sequential Observations
22 Looking under the Hood II: Intra-individual Time Series, Episodes, and Trajectories
23 Whole Persons in Complex Contexts: Person-centered Approaches
Section VI: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems? Optimization
24 Developing Contexts: Weather, Co-adaptation, and Attunement
25 Developing Brains: Experience and Neuroplasticity
26 Developing Individuals: Transformations and Branching Cascades
27 Multiple Lines of Sight: Converging Operations and Open Minds
Afterword: The Journey Continues
Index
9781138316652
Developmental biology, Developmental neurophysiology, Developmental psychology
155 / SKI