Title:
Developmental psychology
Author:
Hook, Derek.
ISBN:
9781919713687
Publication Information:
Lansdowne [South Africa] : UCT Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
viii, 432 pages : illustrations, portraits
Contents:
Introduction on basic concepts -- Psychoanalytic, cognitive, and psychosocial developmental psychology: the hows and whys / Derek Hook -- Basic concepts and principles in developmental psychology / Derek Hook, Kate Cockcroft -- Case study: The developmental history of Kobus Geldenhuys, the Norwood killer / Derek Hook -- Psychoanalytic approaches to development and personality -- A basic introduction to psychoanalytic thought / Jacki Watts -- Freud's psychoanalytic theory of development and personality / Derek Hook, Jacki Watts -- Klein's object relations theory of development and personality / Jacki Watts -- Donald Winnicott / Jacki Watts -- Jung's analytic theory of the development of personality / Jacki Watts -- Lacan's mirror stage / Derek Hook -- Cognitive development -- Theories of cognitive development: Piaget, Vygotsky and information-processing theory / Kate Cockcroft -- Intellectual development / Kate Cockcroft -- Language development / Kate Cockroft -- Memory development / Kate Cockroft.
Psychosocial and socio-political contexts of development -- Attachment theory / Lee Senior -- Erikson's psychosocial stages of development / Derek Hook -- Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning / James Grant -- Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of development / Derek Hook -- Gender identity formation / Gill Haiden -- Critical issues in developmental psychology / Derek Hook -- Key developmental issues in the Southern African context -- Race, culture and psychological theory / Mambwe Kasese-Hara -- Theory and South African developmental psychology research and literature / Catriona Macleod.
Abstract:
Developmental Psychology provides a theory-driven approach to development in the South African context, and brings together three typically discrete subdisciplines of psychology - the psycho-analytic, cognitive, and psychosocial perspectives. The book is a broad and integrative introduction to development psychology for undergraduates that begins with a discussion of key terms, debates, and tensions in the field, and concludes with a focus on priorities for development in the southern African context.