Developmental Psychology: An Advanced TextbookDevelopmental Psychology provides a perspective that illuminates substantive phenomena in psychology, applies across the life span, and has its own value as well as manifest relevance to everyday life. It is for these reasons that the editors undertook the study of developmental psychology and organized this introduction for advanced students. The chapters represent original, comprehensive, and topical treatments of major areas of developmental psychology that have been tailored into a uniquely broad and useful text for graduate and advanced undergraduate developmental psychology students. |
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Page 53
... Longitudinal Studies . In a longitudinal study , the same people are studied as they grow older . Although the advantage of this approach is that it yields a convincing picture of how particular individuals change over time , an obvious ...
... Longitudinal Studies . In a longitudinal study , the same people are studied as they grow older . Although the advantage of this approach is that it yields a convincing picture of how particular individuals change over time , an obvious ...
Page 54
... longitudinal research by other means . Cohort Sequential Designs . One good test of the validity of the findings from a longitudinal study is simply to repeat the study at a different time and with a different group of individuals . If ...
... longitudinal research by other means . Cohort Sequential Designs . One good test of the validity of the findings from a longitudinal study is simply to repeat the study at a different time and with a different group of individuals . If ...
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... Longitudinal Study : A twenty - one year exploration of psychometric intelligence in adulthood . In K. W. Schaie ( Ed . ) , Longitudinal studies of adult psychological development . New York : Guilford Press , 1983 . Schaie , K. W. ...
... Longitudinal Study : A twenty - one year exploration of psychometric intelligence in adulthood . In K. W. Schaie ( Ed . ) , Longitudinal studies of adult psychological development . New York : Guilford Press , 1983 . Schaie , K. W. ...
Contents
Methodology | 37 |
Perceptual Development | 81 |
Nature and Nurture | 94 |
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Developmental Psychology: An Advanced Textbook Marc H. Bornstein,Michael E. Lamb No preview available - 1999 |
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