Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Major Paradigms and Approaches in Psychology
- 2 Methodology in Psychology
- 3 Neuroscience in Psychology
- 4 Sensation and Perception
- 5 Attention: Awareness and Control
- 6 Learning
- 7 Memory
- 8 Decision-Making
- 9 Creativity
- 10 Intelligence
- 11 Development
- 12 Social Psychology
- 13 Gender
- 14 Emotion
- 15 Motivation
- 16 Personality
- 17 Abnormal Psychology
- 18 Psychotherapy
- 19 Health Psychology
- Index
- References
11 - Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2019
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Major Paradigms and Approaches in Psychology
- 2 Methodology in Psychology
- 3 Neuroscience in Psychology
- 4 Sensation and Perception
- 5 Attention: Awareness and Control
- 6 Learning
- 7 Memory
- 8 Decision-Making
- 9 Creativity
- 10 Intelligence
- 11 Development
- 12 Social Psychology
- 13 Gender
- 14 Emotion
- 15 Motivation
- 16 Personality
- 17 Abnormal Psychology
- 18 Psychotherapy
- 19 Health Psychology
- Index
- References
Summary
The challenge of writing an intellectual history of development is that – in the twentieth century, which is to say the period during which Modern Psychology underwent its major growth spurt (esp. after World War II, when B. Fred Skinner (1904–1990) and Jean Piaget (1896–1980 dominated)1 – development, generally, played second-fiddle to evolution. The result is that the developmental discourse has lately been primarily an evolutionary one: discussions of natural change in humans have been tilted toward the maturation and shaping of inherited traits, rather than the construction of novelties constrained by interactions between biology and context.2 In other words, recent psychological thinking about development has been informed by the manufactured dichotomy of nature versus nurture when instead we might have been thinking in terms of nature and nurture.3
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- The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology , pp. 287 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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