Developmental-diagnostic dimensions as seen through psychological tests.
About: This article is published in Journal of projective techniques.The article was published on 1962-06-01. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Developmental Diagnostic & Psychological testing.
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TL;DR: In this paper, four main lines of investigation are reviewed, each dealing with questions and hypotheses derived from one or more of the propositions and each suggested by an examination of the literature.
Abstract: Since the many broader developmental propositions common to the theories of Piaget, Werner, and psychoanalytic ego psychology are not available in the usual research report, the present paper starts by defining a number of them to provide an outline of the conceptual framework which these three developmental theories share. This framework delineates the limits of the literature survey which follows. Four main lines of investigation are then reviewed, each dealing with questions and hypotheses derived from one or more of the propositions and each suggested by an examination of the literature. These are: studies dealing with innately given behavioral and structural organs and modes of functioning; differentiation-integration and levels of organization; multiple modes and stages of development; and the adaptive process. Following this literature review, a concluding section considers some implications of the biodevelopmental research reported to date for the understanding of child psychopathology.
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01 Jan 1960
TL;DR: In this paper, the ego wards off unpleasure and anxiety, and exercises control over impulsive behavior, affects, and instinctive urges, in psychoanalytic psychology.
Abstract: This book deals with one particular problem that is with the ways and means by which the ego wards off unpleasure and anxiety, and exercises control over impulsive behavior, affects, and instinctive urges. It is a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology.
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TL;DR: The Child's Conception of Physical Causality as mentioned in this paper is a collection of empirical data, systematically organized by tasks that illuminate how things work in the real world, and it can be used to understand the way children think about the world.
Abstract: Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles - wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from one parking garage to another. "The Child's Conception of Physical Causality", part of the very beginning of the ground-breaking work of the Swiss naturalist Jean Piaget, is filled with creative experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. The strength of Piaget's research is evident in this collection of empirical data, systematically organized by tasks that illuminate how things work. Piaget's data are remarkably rich. In his new introduction, Jean Valsiner observes that Piaget had no grand theoretical aims, yet the book's simple power cannot be ignored. Piaget's great contribution to developmental psychology was his "clinical method" - a tactic that integrated relevant aspects of naturalistic experiment, interview and observation. Through this systematic inquiry, we gain insight into children's thinking. Reading Piaget will encourage the contemporary reader to think about the unity of psychological phenomena and their theoretical underpinnings. His wealth of creative experimental ideas probes into the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. Technologies change, yet the creative curiosity of children remains basically unhindered by the consumer society. Piaget's data preserve the reality of the original phenomena. As such, this work will provide a source of information for developmental psychologists and those involved in the field of experimental science.
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TL;DR: The authors discusses the psychoanalytic theory of the EGO in the context of the study of the child and its relation to the Ego and its relationship to the human ego.
Abstract: (1950). Comments on the Psychoanalytic Theory of the EGO. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 74-96.
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TL;DR: In this article, the psychoanalytic study of the child has been studied in the context of the Theory of Aggression and its application to the psychology of the human child, i.e., aggression.
Abstract: (1947). Notes on the Theory of Aggression. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 9-36.
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