The Life Cycle : : Readings in Human Development / / Laurence D. Steinberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Steinberg, Laurence D.,
• MitwirkendeR: Atchley, Robert C.,; Babchuk, Nicholas,; Bell, Silvia M.,; Berardo, Felix M.,; Birch, Herbert,; Bohan, Janis Beebe,; Bower, Tom,; Breslow Rubin, Lillian,; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne,; Butler, Robert N.,; Byrne, Diane F.,; Chess, Stella,; Cox, Martha,; Cox, Roger,; Datan, Nancy,; Eckerman, Carol O.,; Elkind, David,; Erikson, Erik H.,; Feldman, Harold,; Guardo, Carol J.,; Hartup, Willard W.,; Haven, Clayton,; Havighurst, Robert J.,; Hetherington, E. Mavis,; Hill, Charles T.,; Kuhn, Deanna,; Kutz, Stuart L.,; Levinson, Daniel J.,; Lewis, Michael,; Lowenthal, Marjorie Fiske,; Lynn, David B.,; McVicker Hunt, J.,; Monahan, Lynn,; Neugarten, Bernice L.,; Nye, Ivan F.,; Peplau, Letitia Anne,; Rollins, Boyd C.,; Rosenberg, Florence,; Rosenberg, Morris,; Rossi, Alice S.,; Rubin, Zick,; Salter Ainsworth, Mary D.,; Selman, Robert L.,; Shaver, Phillip,; Simmons, Roberta G.,; Steinberg, Laurence D.,; Sutton-Smith, Brian,; Thomas, Alexander,; Whatley, Judith L.,; Znaniecki Lopata, Helena,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mandelbaum, Lynn J.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1981]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 1981
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)

Provides the student of human development with a collection of empirical and theoretical articles. Examines each stage of life from infancy through late adulthood as a separate developmental cycle.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Infancy -- Mastery and Competencies -- 1. Competent Newborns -- 2. Piaget’s Observations as a Source of Hypotheses Concerning Motivation -- Identity and the Self -- 3. Mirror-Image Stimulation and Self-Recognition in Infancy -- 4. Characteristics of the Individual Child’s Behavioral Responses to the Environment -- Relations with Others -- 5. Attachment, Exploration, and Separation: Illustrated by the Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation -- 6. Growth of Social Play with Peers during the Second Year of Life -- Part II: Childhood -- Mastery and Competencies -- 7. The Role of Play in Cognitive Development -- 8. A Structural-Developmental Analysis of Levels of Role-taking in Middle Childhood -- Identity and the Self -- 9. The Process of Learning Parental and Sex-Role Identification -- 10. Development of a Sense of Self-Identity in Children -- Relations with Others -- 11. Peer Interaction and the Behavioral Development of the Individual Child -- 12. The Aftermath of Divorce -- Part III: Adolescence -- Mastery and Competencies -- 13. Understanding the Young Adolescent -- 14. Intrapsychic versus Cultural Explanations of the “Fear of Success” Motive -- Identity and the Self -- 15. The Problem of Ego Identity -- 16. Disturbance in the Self- Image at Adolescence -- Relations with Others -- 17. Changes in Family Relations at Puberty -- 18. Breakups before Marriage: The End of 103 Affairs -- Part IV: Adulthood -- Mastery and Competencies -- 19. Transition to Parenthood -- 20. Work and Its Meaning -- Identity and the Self -- 21. The Subjective Experience of Middle Age -- 22. The Midlife Transition: A Period in Adult Psychosocial Development -- Relations with Others -- 23. Marital Satisfaction over the Family Life Cycle -- 24. Primary Friends and Kin: A Study of the Associations of Middle-Class Couples -- Part V: Late Adulthood -- Mastery and Competencies -- 25. The Role of Grandparenthood -- 26. Adjustment to Loss of Job at Retirement -- Identity and the Self -- 27. Personality and Patterns of Aging -- 28. The Life Review: An Interpretation of Reminiscence in the Aged -- Late Adulthood -- Relations with Others -- 29. Interaction and Adaptation: Intimacy as a Critical Variable -- 30. The Meaning of Friendship in Widowhood