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Author Goodey, C. F., author.

Title Development : the history of a psychological concept / Christopher Goodey
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Development and the origin of psychological concepts -- The history of Christianity and the first principles of development: linear time, interiority, structure -- The history of education: rearing the elect child -- Pascal on the ordering of human time -- The normalization of the elect: Locke to Montesquieu -- The coining of a developmental theory: Leibniz to Bonnet -- Emile: Rousseau's well-ordered developer -- Nature versus nurture and cognitive ability testing: historical sketches -- Postscript: Further targets for historical research
Summary "Development is one of psychology's given components. Psychologists and consequently the lay public in Western cultures see childhood as well as adult character in terms of what I call here 'the developmental idea', describing a scientific category that exists 'out there' in nature. The human interior, it seems, passes through a necessary series of stages that play out over time. And so the youngest of us are only potential human beings; we do not start to display signs of 'empathy', say, until we are three, or 'logical reasoning' until we are six: or so we are told. Adult character and conduct are the desired outcome of those stages (though a few of us, it appears, never reach them even when we arrive at adulthood by calendar age)"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021)
Subject Developmental psychology -- History
PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General.
Developmental psychology
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021024575
ISBN 9781108980845
1108980848
1108987885
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