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Scholarly Creativity and the Poetry of Human Development: The Life of Fritz Heider.
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Rapport, Leon – Human Development, 1985
Reviews the autobiography of Fritz Heider and discusses it in light of current knowledge about creativity and adult development. Suggests that the field of human development and life-span psychology should study the poetics of human development. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Creativity
How Developmental Psychologists Make Their Ideas Clearer. Commentary.
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Cahan, Emily D.; White, Sheldon H. – Human Development, 1997
The lineage of developmental psychology has involved three waves of research in the 1890s (Hall), 1930s, and 1960s (Piaget). Over these years, a cooperative knowledge-building process arose, fostered by new journals in the 1930s, in which articles built upon one another and sustained or redirected trains of thought among a community of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual History, Periodicals
The Handbook's Back Pages--And Ours.
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Damon, William – Human Development, 1997
Reviews the history of the several editions of the "Handbook of Child Psychology" from 1931 to the present. Identifies continuing themes and alterations in theoretical orientation within the field of human development that are found in the handbook's editions. Discusses the strategy behind and the contents of the 1997 edition. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Guides
Piaget in Paris: From "Autism" to Logic.
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Harris, Paul – Human Development, 1997
Describes an early formative period in Piaget's life, in which three themes stand out. First, Piaget was introduced to the concept of "autistic" or nonrational thought. Second, Piaget's philosophical education sensitized him to the role of logic in thought. Third, Piaget's exposure to biological taxonomy alerted him to look for…
Descriptors: Biographies, Child Psychology, Developmental Stages, Intellectual Development
Change within Limits. Commentary.
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J. – Human Development, 1997
Reflects on four aspects of the history of developmental psychology. Notes that the discipline has followed a path from fact collection without theory, to grand theories, to a profusion of minitheories; expanded focus from child to lifespan development; exhibited increased cross-disciplinary interests; and become more sensitive to addressing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Ethnic Bias, Intellectual History
The Wandering IQ: American Culture and Mental Testing.
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Cravens, Hamilton – Human Development, 1985
Argues that science, like any other human activity, is limited by the culture and the age to which it belongs. Examines the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station's conclusion that the IQs of young children were affected by specified environmental conditions in light of shifting perceptions of reality in the 1930s and 1940s. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, History
A New Generation: New Intellectual Opportunities. Commentary.
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Youniss, James – Human Development, 1997
Earlier generations of developmental psychologists, seeking to make their discipline a normative science, stressed experimental study of children, method over subject matter, and fundamental laws underlying behavior. By contrast, the generation of psychologists after 1970 is inclusive in its research methodology, concerned with the connection…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Development, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology