Stability and Change in Human Characteristics

by Benjamin Samuel, Bloom and Bloom Benjamin Samuel

Benjamin Samuel Bloom (February 21, 1913 - September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Textbook Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471082422
• ISBN13: 9780471082422
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Maritime
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.7" x 1.1" x 6.7"

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Stability and Change in Human Characteristics

This book... Examines and interprets a large mass of data from hundreds of longitudinal studies on the shaping of human beings from infancy to adulthood. Cutting across many disciplines, the book relates these research findings to three propositions: 1) The relation between parallel measurements over time is a function of the levels of development represented at different times. 2) Change measurements are unrelated to initial measurements but they are highly related to the revelant enviromental conditions in which individuals have lived during the change period. 3) Variations in the enviroment have greatest quantitative effect on a characteristic at its most rapid period of change and least rapid period of change. Stability and Change in Human Characteristics applies these propositions to many different characteristics and considers their theoretical as well as their practical consequences for child rearing, education, and other fields. It traces the course of development of a large number of human characteristics and considers the implications of these results for prediction, behavioral sciences research, and the problems of measurements. In general, the findings reveal the tremendous importance of the first few years of life for all that follows. Change in many characteristics becomes more and more difficult with increasing age and only the most powerful enviromental conditions are likely to produce significant changes at the later stages of life. --- from book's dustjacket