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  "A Human Ethogram: Its Scientific Acceptability and Importance." A Treatise Assessing Modern Theories of Personality Development and Proposing a New Comprehensive Theory of Behavior and Behavioral Development, key chapters and sections.
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ERIC #:

ED258729

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Author:

Jesness, Bradley

Publication Type:

Opinion Papers

Publication Date:

1985-00-00

Journal Name:

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Abstract:
Written by a methodological behaviorist, this treatise critiques neo-Hullian, Freudian, Eriksonian, and Piagetian theories and presents an ethological perspective on behavior and personality development. The critique is extended to cover social learning, cognitive-developmental, neo-Freudian, and Skinnerian theories, as well as the ideas of Bandura. Assumptions for conducting research and allowing for interpretation and integration of findings are specified and discussed. These assumptions include the following ideas: (1) that fundamentally important behaviors can be seen in conflict situations; (2) that all behavior must be viewed with the past history of the subject in mind; (3) that important manipulative skills can be noted directly and that covert behavior can be inferred by an observer who has been engaged in an extensive longitudinal study; (4) that only unobtrusive observations used to interpret the behavior of single subjects will be unbiased; (5) that all behavior is directly or indirectly interactive with the environment, is homeostatic, or works toward homeostasis and that all species-typical behavioral developments are adaptive; (6) that all behaviors must be construed "within the subject's perceptual-thought system"; and (7) that interpretation involves comparing present behaviors with similar past behaviors and interpreting them in terms of various possible types of behaviors and in terms of specified mechanisms of change. Any theory that fulfills these assumptions is considered to be an ethological theory of personality development. A bibliography of suggested readings is appended.

  Information-Processing Theory and Perspectives on Development: A Look at Concepts and Methods--The View of a Developmental Ethologist.
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ERIC #:

ED264960

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Author:

Jesness, Bradley

Publication Type:

Opinion Papers

Publication Date:

1985-00-00

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Abstract:
This paper examines concepts in information-processing theory which are likely to be relevant to development and characterizes the methods and data upon which the concepts are based. Among the concepts examined are those which have slight empirical grounds. Other concepts examined are those which seem to have empirical bases but which are misassessed. Included in the overview of information-processing concepts is an extensive look at J. Anderson's ACT model of basic memory processes. Other concepts from information-processing models which have been proposed to account for development include Sternberg's components of cognition model and Fisher and Pipp's skill theory. Finally, the general nature of modern methods is outlined, characterized, and contrasted with key aspects of the ethological approach. Appendices offer commentary on statements and concepts considered problematic in ACT, and a list of interpretive assumptions providing for a subject-determined integration of data.

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note some important editorial corrections BY going to THIS LINK .  If you have not already
done so, you should begin by reading A SHORT SUMMARY PAPER, on this site -- before
reading the 2 large papers, above. 

ALSO:
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