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- 1.Introduction — The Value of Theories
- 2.The Early History of Child Study
- 3.Two Worldviews — Locke vs. Rousseau
- 4.Later History — Becoming Scientific
- 5.Freud's Psychodynamic Theory
- 6.How We Gain Contact With Reality — The Ego
- 7.Freud's Psycho-Sexual Stages
- 8.Erikson's Psycho-Social Theory
- 9.Erikson's Early Stages
- 10.Identity and Intimacy
- 11.Erikson's Later Stages — Adult Development
- 12.Bowlby and Ainsworth's Attachment Theory
- 13.How Nature Ensures That Attachment Will Occur
- 14.Development of Secure and Insecure Attachments
- 15.Early Attachments and Adult Relationships
- 16.Bandura's Social Learning Theory
- 17.Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory
- 18.Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory
- 19.Piaget's Early Stages
- 20.Concrete Operations
- 21.Piaget's Last Stage
- 22.Vygotsky's Cognitive-Mediation Theory
- 23.Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development
- 24.Conclusions — Our Nature and Development