Background information
For your Developmental Theory Critique paper, you will be required to choose a developmental theory that is discussed in your textbook or any other developmental theory you find interesting and write a paper on that theory. You must find credible background information on your theory, which includes answering questions like:
- What was the date of original conceptualization?
- Who suggested and developed it?
- What exactly does the theory say?
- How does it relate to child development?
The library has scholarly resources that are dedicated to background information on topics, which are mostly known as reference resources. You can use the following resources to find this basic information about your topic:
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Credo ReferenceThis Complete Core Collection includes over 1200 from major reference works, to multi-volume subject encyclopedias, to field guides, to scholarly handbooks, to animations and countless other award-winning sources. To find information about your theory, just type in your theory to the search bar and do a search. You'll find many different encyclopedia entries for your theory. Make sure you look at multiple, so that you can compare the information in them.
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Gale eBooksGale Virtual Reference Library is a database of full-text encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. To find information on your theory, type your theory in search bar and do a search. You will get results from many different encyclopedias/reference sources. Make sure you look at multiple to compare information.
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Developmental Theory Books
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Navigating the Social World by ISBN: 9780199361069Publication Date: 2014-02-01This book will be the first to report on evidence that has accumulated on an unprecedented scale, showing us what capacities for social cognition are present at birth and early in life, and how these capacities develop through learning in the first years of life. The unique format and accessible writing style will be appealing to graduate students and researchers in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology. -
Key concepts in developmental psychology by ISBN: 9781780343310Publication Date: 2011This book serves as a guide to the principal concepts currently in use in Developmental Psychology and is perfect for courses in child development or developmental psychology. -
Adolescence and Adulthood by ISBN: 9780230296404Publication Date: 2012-02-13From the teenage years to retirement, each phase of life presents different challenges and new experiences. Examining the patterns of development throughout the lifespan, the authors provide key insights into how we experience the world, and they examine how established theories have been challenged by recent changes to the understanding of human development. Whatever your level of study, this absorbing introduction will give you a deeper appreciation of the different life phases and how psychological principles aid our understanding of them. -
The Handbook of Lifespan Communication by ISBN: 9781433122651Publication Date: 2014-10-30The Handbook of Lifespan Communicationis the foundational scholarly text that offers readers a state of the art view of the varied and rich areas of lifespan communication research. -
Childhood Beyond Pathology by ISBN: 9781438470917Publication Date: 2018-09-01Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.
