Contents This Book: (A) Fritz Heider and Naive Psychology; Chapter 1: Common sense and its role in psychological theory; Chapter 2: General issues of behavior theory. (B) Kurt Lewin and Field Theory; Chapter 3: The child psychology of Kurt Lewin; Chapter 4: Evaluation and critique of field theory. (C) The Theory of Jean Piaget; Chapter 5: Piaget's fundamental concepts and strategy of research; Chapter 6: Piaget's description of development during infancy; Chapter 7: Development of conceptual thought pre-operational stage; Chapter 8: The periods of concrete and formal operations; Chapter 9: Piaget's theory of the developmental process. (D) Sigmund Freud and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Development; Chapter 10: Freudian theory fundamental strategy and concepts; Chapter 11: Freudian theory of psychodynamics; Chapter 12: Freudian theory development of personality; Chapter 13: Critique of psychoanalytic theory. (E) Stimulus-Response Theories; Chapter 14: The basic elements of the S-R strategy; Chapter 15: Social-learning theory of child development; Chapter 16: Critique of social learning theory. (F) Heinz Werner The Organismic Developmental Point of View; Chapter 17: Heinz Werner's theory of child development. (G) Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales-The Sociological Viewpoint; Chapter 18: The family as a social system. (H) Conclusion; Chapter 19: The family as a social system.