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Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Explorations Into the History of Psychological Research is an academic textbook written by Roger R. Hock that is currently in its eighth edition. The book provides summaries, critiques, and updates on important research that has impacted the field of psychology. The textbook is used in psychology courses ...
Cultural-historical psychology; Depth psychology; Descriptive psychology; Developmental psychology; Ecological psychology; Ecological systems theory; Ecopsychology; Ego psychology; Environmental psychology; Evolutionary psychology; Existential psychology; Experimental analysis of behavior - the school descended from B.F. Skinner's work ...
Specialized lists of psychologists can be found at the articles on comparative psychology, list of clinical psychologists, list of developmental psychologists, list of educational psychologists, list of evolutionary psychologists, list of social psychologists, and list of cognitive scientists. Many psychologists included in those lists are also ...
The Gesell Developmental Schedule believes that human development unfolds in stages, or in sequences over a given time period. These stages were considered milestones, or the manifestations of mental development. [1] Some examples are: "When the infant first rolls from back to stomach unassisted" [1] "When the child first utters words" [1]
There she began the longitudinal Berkeley Growth Study, which worked to create a guide of physical and behavioral growth across development. [3] Bayley also examined the development of cognitive and motor functions in children, leading to her belief that intelligence evolves over the course of child development. [ 2 ]
In the study of development, recent work has been generated regarding the combination of behavior analytic views with dynamical systems theory. [162] The added benefit of this approach is its portrayal of how small patterns of changes in behavior in terms of principles and mechanisms over time can produce substantial changes in development. [163]
A way to improve developmental psychology is a representation of cross-cultural studies. The psychology field in general assumes that "basic" human developments are represented in any population, specifically the Western-Educated-Industrialized-Rich and Democratic (W.E.I.R.D.) subjects that are relied on for a majority of their studies.