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How Developmental Psychologists Make Their Ideas Clearer. Commentary.
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Cahan, Emily D.; White, Sheldon H. – Human Development, 1997
The lineage of developmental psychology has involved three waves of research in the 1890s (Hall), 1930s, and 1960s (Piaget). Over these years, a cooperative knowledge-building process arose, fostered by new journals in the 1930s, in which articles built upon one another and sustained or redirected trains of thought among a community of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual History, Periodicals
The Handbook's Back Pages--And Ours.
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Damon, William – Human Development, 1997
Reviews the history of the several editions of the "Handbook of Child Psychology" from 1931 to the present. Identifies continuing themes and alterations in theoretical orientation within the field of human development that are found in the handbook's editions. Discusses the strategy behind and the contents of the 1997 edition. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Guides
Martha Muchow and the Life Space of the Urban Child.
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Wohlwill, Joachim F. – Human Development, 1985
Provides brief biographical sketch and describes Muchow's research contributions. Discusses the content of her investigation of the environmental experience of a group of urban children and their activities in diverse settings. (Author/SO)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Biographies, Children, Developmental Psychology
Change within Limits. Commentary.
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J. – Human Development, 1997
Reflects on four aspects of the history of developmental psychology. Notes that the discipline has followed a path from fact collection without theory, to grand theories, to a profusion of minitheories; expanded focus from child to lifespan development; exhibited increased cross-disciplinary interests; and become more sensitive to addressing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Ethnic Bias, Intellectual History
A New Generation: New Intellectual Opportunities. Commentary.
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Youniss, James – Human Development, 1997
Earlier generations of developmental psychologists, seeking to make their discipline a normative science, stressed experimental study of children, method over subject matter, and fundamental laws underlying behavior. By contrast, the generation of psychologists after 1970 is inclusive in its research methodology, concerned with the connection…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Development, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology