The wide variety of existing developmenta1 theories are organized along two dimensions; "goal-directed vs. nondirected" (qualitative vs. quantitative) and “stadial vs. nonstadial" (continuity vs. noncontinuity) changes. ...

The presented. paper is focused on the problem of social life organization as a source of changes in human behavior and development. Based on the discussion of literature from the areas of life-span psychology, life-course ...

The aim of this study was to verify the hypothesis saying that older people on average achieve a lower level of performance than younger at solving syllogisms which contain stereotypical knowledge about aging, and to decide ...

The article constitutes a report from own research on the issue of school readiness for six-year-old children. In the first step, the level of school competences of six-year-olds measured by Intelligence and Development ...

The purpose of this study was to describe the effect of differences in socio-cultural context on adolescents' probability estimations of attaining a positive future in three life domains: education, occupation and family. ...