Annals of Theoretical Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Theoretical Problems in Developmental Psychology

   • Paul van Geert

   Pages 1-54

3. Developmental Psychology: Person-centered, not variable-centered

   • Wm J. Baker

   Pages 55-63

4. Development: Sequences, structure, and chaos

   • Mark L. Howe, F. Michael Rabinowitz

   Pages 65-71

5. Reply to Commentaries

   • Paul van Geert

   Pages 73-89

6. Relations Between Method and Theory in Developmental Research: A partial-isomorphism view

   • Joachim F. Wohlwill

   Pages 91-138

7. Structural Models of Developmental Theory in Psychology

   • J. J. McArdle

   Pages 139-160

8. Theories and Methods in the Service of Data Construction in Developmental Psychology

   • Jaan Valsiner

   Pages 161-175

9. Theory and Method in the Study of Behavioral Development: On the legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill

   • Richard M. Lerner, John R. Nesselroade

   Pages 177-189

10. The Structure of Developmental Theory

    • Willis F. Overton

    Pages 191-235

11. Questions A Satisfying Developmental Theory Would Answer: The scope of a complete explanation of development phenomena

    • Frank B. Murray

    Pages 237-247

12. The Development of World Views: Towards future synthesis?

    • Ellin Kofsky Scholnick

    Pages 249-259

13. Metaphor, Recursive Systems, and Paradox in Science and Developmental Theory

    • Willis F. Overton

    Pages 261-277

14. The Concept of Development in the Study of Individual and Social Change

    • Roger A. Dixon, Richard M. Lerner, David F. Hultsch

    Pages 279-323

15. On the Concept of Development: Contextualism, relative time, and the role of dialectics

    • John C. Cavanaugh

    Pages 325-333

16. Self-organization as Developmental Process: Beyond the organismic and mechanistic models?

    • Michael Chapman

    Pages 335-348

17. For a More Adequate Concept of Development with Help from Aristotle and Marx

    • Charles W. Tolman

    Pages 349-356

18. Maneuvering Among Models of Developmental Psychology

    • Roger A. Dixon, Richard M. Lerner, David F. Hultsch

    Pages 357-368

19. Back Matter

    Pages 369-385

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This is the first of a two-volume work in the Annals series devoted to developmental psychology. The project was originally conceived in 1985 when Paul van Geert, who had just completed his Theory building in developmental psychology (North Holland, 1986), agreed to col­ laborate on anAnnals volume examining foundational issues pertaining to the concept of development. The project attracted considerable interest and, in view of the length of the resulting manuscript, a decision was made to publish it in two volumes. Fortunately, the contributors provided coherent perspectives on two relatively distinct developmen­ tal themes which served to facilitate our task of dividing their contribu­ tions into two volumes. The first volume deals with the foundations of developmental theory and methodology; the second volume -to appear as Volume 8 of the Annals -with theoretical issues in developmental psychology. In this first volume, the contributions by Willis Overton and Joachim Wohlwill were completed in 1988, those by Roger Dixon, Richard Lerner, and David Hultsch, and Paul van Geert in 1989. Commentaries followed quickly and replies to commentaries were completed in 1990. Paul van Geert provides a general framework within which the founda­ tional issues of development are discussed. He is especially concerned with the nature of transition models and the structure of time in developmental theory. The relationship between methods and framework, or theory, is the topic of Joachim Wohlwill's contribution.

• development
• developmental psychology
• psychology
• theoretical psychology

• Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Paul Geert

• Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Leendert P. Mos

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