The Structuring of Experience
Published on 1. March 1977
Book
Hardback
450 pages
978-0-306-30961-8 (ISBN)
Description
The articles which make up this book were all expressly written to honor a remarkable man and a remarkable psychologist, Joseph McVicker Hunt, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The contributors to this volume, with the exception of Hunt's teacher, J. P. Guilford, are students and colleagues of Hunt's whose intellectual and professional paths have crossed his in some significant way. In terms of content, the contributions collectively range across many of the conventional boundaries that demarcate the territories into which psy- chological subject-matter has been divided. In so doing, they remain faithful to the man they honor, for whom such boundaries have had, at best, only provisional reality. Yet as the introductory chapter attempts to make clear, there is a unifying theme that lies behind the apparent diversity of Hunt's work. While we wished to mark Hunt's specific contributions to the diverse areas represented in this book, we also hoped to capture the unity of viewpoint that ties them together.
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English
Place of publication
United States
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Springer Science+Business Media
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Professional and scholarly
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978-0-306-30961-8 (9780306309618)
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Content
1 Praxis and Interaction: The Psychology of J. McVicker Hunt.- 2 General Intelligence (g) and Heritability (H2, h2).- 3 Development of Intelligence: A Multivariate View.- 4 Plasticity and Structure: The Role of Experience in Infancy.- 5 Competence and Experience.- 6 The Optimal Stimulation Hypothesis and Early Development: Anybody Got a Match?.- 7 The Discrepancy Hypothesis of Attention and Affect in Infants.- 8 Visual Attention in Infancy: Processes, Methods, and Clinical Applications.- 9 Development of Individual Differences in Intrinsic Motivation.- 10 Sequence and Styles in Cognitive Development.- 11 A Constructivist View of a Major Developmental Shift in Early Childhood.- 12 On the Constructive Theory of Memory.- 13 The Role of Person-by-Situation Interactions in Personality Theory.- 14 Psychopathic Behavior: Reflections on Its Nature, Origins, and Treatment.- 15 The Role of Indicators and Surveys in the Service of Children's Needs.- 16 On the Plausibility of Walden Two: A Commentary Based upon the Kibbutz Movement and Twin Oaks.- Author Index.