Understanding human development : dialogues with lifespan psychology /

Understanding human development : dialogues with lifespan psychology / edited by Ursula M. Staudinger and Ulman Lindenberger. - xvii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Why Read Another Book on Human Development? Understanding Human Development Takes a Metatheory and Multiple Disciplines / The Overall Architecture of Lifespan Development -- On the Incomplete Architecture of Human Ontogeny: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Foundation of Developmental Theory / Age Differences in Evolutionary Selection Benefits / Age Differences in Cultural Efficiency: Secular Trends in Longevity / Basic Processes of Lifespan Development: Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC) -- The Process of Successful Aging: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation / Intentionality and Time in Human Development and Aging: Compensation and Goal Adjustment in Changing Developmental Contexts / An Economic Perspective on Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC) / A Lifespan View of Self and Personality -- Completing the Psychobiological Architecture of Human Personality Development: Temperament, Character, and Coherence / The Cumulative Continuity Model of Personality Development: Striking a Balance Between Continuity and Change in Personality Traits Across the Life Course / The Gain-Loss Dynamic in Lifespan Development: Implications for Change in Self and Personality During Old and Very Old Age / A Lifespan View of Intelligence and Cognition -- Enablement and Constraint / Interrelations of Aging, Knowledge, and Cognitive Performance / Formal Models of Age Differences in Task-Complexity Effects / At the Frontiers of Lifespan Methodology -- Structuring and Measuring Change Over the Life Span / The Relationship Between the Structure of Interindividual and Intraindividual Variability: A Theoretical and Empirical Vindication of Developmental Systems Theory / Combining Molecular and Quantitative Genetics: Decomposing the Architecture of Lifespan Development / The Future of Lifespan Psychology: Comments from Related Fields and Neighboring Disciplines -- The Future of Lifespan Developmental Psychology: Perspectives from Control Theory / Without Gender, Without Self / Contributions of Lifespan Psychology to the Future Elaboration of Developmental Systems Theory / The Adaptive Toolbox and Lifespan Development: Common Questions? / The Nature-Nurture Problem Revisited / Secondary School as a Constraint for Adolescent Development / The Sociology of the Life Course and Lifespan Psychology: Diverging or Converging Pathways? / Philosophy or the Search for Anthropological Constants / K. Warner Schaie -- Ursula M. Staudinger and Ulman Lindenberger -- Paul B. Baltes -- Thomas B. L. Kirkwood -- Heiner Maier and James W. Vaupel -- Margret M. Baltes and Laura L. Carstensen -- Jochen Brandtstadter and Klaus Rothermund -- Jere R. Behrman -- C. Robert Cloninger -- Brent W. Roberts and Avshalom Caspi -- Jacqui Smith -- Henry M. Wellman -- Timothy A. Salthouse -- Reinhold Kliegl, Ralf T. Krampe and Ulrich Mayr -- John R. Nesselroade and Paolo Ghisletta -- Peter C. M. Molenaar, Hilde M. Huizenga and John R. Nesselroade -- Gerald E. McClearn -- Jutta Heckhausen -- Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- Richard M. Lerner, Elizabeth Dowling and Susanna Lara Roth -- Gerd Gigerenzer -- Wolf Singer -- Olaf Koller, Jurgen Baumert and Kai U. Schnabel -- Karl Ulrich Mayer -- Jurgen Mittelstrass. 1. I. 2. 3. 4. II. 5. 6. 7. III. 8. 9. 10. IV. 11. 12. 13. V. 14. 15. 16. VI. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

1402071981 9781402071980

2002073182


Developmental psychology

BF713.5 / .U53 2003

155

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