 | Andrew Pollard - Education - 1987 - 274 pages
...(Bronfenbrenner, 1977). In other words, these laboratory-based studies have led to a psychology which is ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (ibid). Although laboratory-based studies have dominated post-war psychology,... | |
 | Martin Woodhead, Paul Light - Child development - 1990 - 372 pages
...procedures. Bronfenbrenner (1977) was prompted to remark: ‘much of contemporary developmental psychology is the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time'. Whereas in the past developmental psychologists tended to model their work... | |
 | Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh, Patrick McGinley - History - 1997 - 354 pages
...Bronfenbrenner's accusation that much of mainstream developmental psychology could be summarized as ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (Bronfenbrenner 1979: 19) heralded a welcome awakening of concern for the... | |
 | Martin Woodhead, Dorothy Faulkner, Karen Littleton - Child development - 1999 - 292 pages
...Bronfenbrenner' s accusation that much of mainstream developmental psychology could be summarized as ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (Bronfenbrenner, 1979: 19) heralded a welcome awakening of concern for the... | |
 | João Gomes-Pedro - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 364 pages
...Bronfehbrenner's accusation that much of mainstream developmental psychology could be summarized as ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, p. 19) heralded a welcome awakening of concern for... | |
 | Sheila Greene - Psychology - 2003 - 180 pages
...and at the level of research. In his 1979 book, he famously accused developmental psychology of being 'the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (p. 19). Around this time there was a detectable change in the writings and... | |
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Much of developmental psychology, as it now exists, is the science of the strange behaviour of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest periods of time 