Social and Personality Development

by Shaffer, David R.

• ISBN13: 9780534207601
• ISBN10: 053420760X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-08-12
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

The success of this best-selling text lies in the author's belief that a good text talks with, rather than at, its readers. Shaffer does an extraordinary job of anticipating students' interests, questions, and concerns while treating them as active participants in the process of learning about social and personality development. The Fifth edition of SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT features clearly written, current coverage of social and personality development that aids students in discovering the causes, processes, and complexities that underlie developmental change. Students learn why biological and environmental factors, contextual factors such as cross-cultural, familial, neighborhood, school, and peer-group influences cause change in children. Shaffer also explores the approaches that researchers use to test their theories and answer important questions about developing children and adolescents. This book's effective coverage of field research stands out from other texts not only for its accuracy and currency, but because Shaffer consistently juxtaposes classic research with the latest breakthroughs in a way that helps students appreciate how knowledge builds on earlier findings. This edition features a much stronger emphasis on cultural influences on development.

Author Biography

David R. Shaffer is a professor of psychology, chair of the Social Psychology program, and past chair of the Life-Span Developmental Psychology program at the University of Georgia. He has also served as associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Bulletin, and Journal of Personality. In 1990 Dr. Shaffer received the Josiah Meigs award for Excellence in Instruction, the University of Georgia's highest instructional honor.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(39)
Psychoanalytic Theory and Modern Biological Perspectives	39	(36)
Environmentalist Perspectives: Social-Learning Theory and the Ecological Approach	75	(30)
Cognitive Viewpoints on Social and Personality Development	105	(36)
Early Social and Emotional Development I: Emotional Growth and Establishment of Affectional Ties	141	(36)
Early Social and Emotional Development II: Individual Differences and Their Implications for Future Development	177	(32)
Becoming an Individual: Development of the Self	209	(30)
Achievement	239	(40)
Sex Differences and Sex-Role Development	279	(46)
Aggression and Antisocial Conduct	325	(38)
Development of Altruism and Prosocial Behavior	363	(38)
Moral Development	401	(40)
The Family	441	(50)
Extrafamilial Influences I: Television and Schooling	491	(42)
Extrafamilial Influences II: Peers as Socialization Agents	533