Contents: Part I:The Field of Developmental Psychology.Why Developmental
Psychology? An Illustration of the Developmental Approach: The Case of
Auditory Sensitivity. Part II:General Issues in Research Methodology.The
Nature of Theories and Models. The Nature of Scientific Methods. The
Internal Validity of Research Designs. The External Validity of Research
Designs. Measurement. Data Analysis and Interpretation. Part III:
Objectives and Issues of Developmental Research in Psychology.The Scope of
Developmental Psychology. Targets of Developmental Analysis. Developmental
Research Paradigms. Time and Change: The Basic Data Matrix. Part IV:
Descriptive Developmental Designs.Simple Cross- Sectional and Longitudinal
Methods. Sequential Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Strategies.
Developmental Design and Change in Subject Populations With Age. Change in
Populations and Sampling: Assessment and Control. Selected Issues in
Developmental Assessment. Modeling Change Over Time: From Description to
Explanation. Part V:Explanatory-Analytic Developmental Research.Toward
Explanation: The Simulation of Developmental Processes. Cross- Cultural and
Comparative Developmental Psychology. Heredity- Environment Research and
Development. Developmental Research on Learning: Group Designs.
Developmental Research on Learning: Single-Subject Designs. Structural
Models: The Continuing Search for Causes.
