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Title

Dynamics and indeterminism in developmental and social processes / edited by Alan Fogel, Maria C.D.P. Lyra, Jaan Valsiner.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Fogel, Alan.
• Lyra, Maria C. D. P.
• Valsiner, Jaan.

Description

vii, 294 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Free will and determinism > Congresses
• Developmental psychology > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at a workshop on "Determinism and Indeterminism in Development" held in July 1993, in Serrambi, Brazil.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction: Perspectives on Indeterminism and Development / Alan Fogel, Maria C. D. P. Lyra and Jaan Valsiner -- 1. Que Sera Sera: Determinism and Nonlinear Dynamic Model Building in Development / Paul van Geert -- 2. Change in the Process of Change: Coping With Indeterminism / Aydan Gulerce -- 3. Metacommunication as a Source of Indeterminism in Relationship Development / Alan Fogel and Angela Uchoa Branco -- 4. Processual Dynamics of Interaction Through Time: Adult-Child Interactions and Process of Development / Maria C. D. P. Lyra and Lucien T. Winegar. Determinacy and Indeterminacy: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives / George Butterworth -- 5. Play and Imagination: The Psychological Construction of Novelty / Zilma de Moraes Ramos de Oliveira and Jaan Valsiner -- 6. From Disordered to Ordered Movement: Attractor Configuration and Development / Maria Isabel Pedrosa, Ana M. A. Carvalho and Amelia Imperio-Hamburger --
• 7. (In)Determinacy and the Semiotic Constitution of Subjectivity / Ana Luiza B. Smolka, Maria Cecilia R. De Goes and Angel Pino. Transforming the Canonical Cowboy: Notes on the Determinacy and Indeterminacy of Children's Play and Cultural Development / Cynthia Lightfoot. The Semiotic Argument for Indeterminism in Development / Gorjana Litvinovic -- 8. Personality Self-Organization: Cascading Constraints on Cognition-Emotion Interaction / Marc D. Lewis -- 9. Epistemology of Cognitive Development Theory / Antonio Roazzi and Bruno Campello de Souza -- 10. Changes in Social-Conceptual Development: Domain-Specific Structures, Self-Organization, and Indeterminism / Maria Legerstee. Cascades on an Epigenetic River: Indeterminacy in Cognitive and Personality Development / Helena Hurme. Looking Backwards and Forward, and the Place for Indeterminism / Hideo Kojima.

ISBN

• 0805818057 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0805818065 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96034678

OCLC

• 35317712
• ocm35317712

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries