Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered

by James L. McClelland, Michael S.C. Thomas, John P. Spencer

Book Overview

From William James to Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget to B.F. Skinner, scholars (and parents ) have wondered how children move from the blooming, buzzing confusion of infancy, through the tumult of childhood and adolescence, into adulthood. Does development occur continuously over time or in a series of dramatic stages? Is development driven by learning or by biological maturational processes? What is the nature of experience, and how does it generate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195300599
• ISBN13: 9780195300598
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.0"