John A Meacham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5379764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Meacham |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Meacham |
| SIGNATURE | MEACHAM J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Buffalo State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contents, Vol. 21, 1978
Implications of a Dialectical Perspective for Research Methodology / Naderizing Methodology: Discussant’s Comments / Methodological Implications of Contextual/Dialectic Theories of Development / Resea…
The papers of this symposium examine, within the context of several content areas, the methodological implications of a dialectical perspective. Rappoport reviews the four papers of the symposium suggesting that they represent a revolutionary perspective on psychological methodology. Lerner, Skinner, and Sorrell propose five prototypic issues derived from dialectics – relationism, evolving reciprocity, probabilism, timing, and the nonequivalent t…
Structuralist Perspectives on Social Development in Youth
A variety of issues regarding social and personality development in youth is currently being examined from the perspective of Piaget’s structuralist theory of development. These issues, including questions regarding the universality of formal operations and the generalizability of formal operations across various content domains, are considered in the various chapters of Social Development in Youth: Structure and Content edited by Meacham and San…
Continuing the Dialogue: Dialectics and Remembering
A dialectical approach to memories and memory abilities requires attention to relations of reciprocal causality, both between the individual and society, and within the individual. The challenge of the dialectical approach is to persist in insisting on change. Some possible directions for research and theory may lie in the examination of paradoxes in our conceptualizing of memories, and in the study of autobiographies as examples of remembering a…
Action Theory, Control and Motivation: A Symposium
This symposium includes reactions to action theory from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Eckensberger and Meacham provide a framework for discussion, defining intentional action as a basic unit of analysis that includes being future-oriented, a free choice of means, potential consciousness of goals and means, and responsibility. Boesch argues that cognitive and affective systems do not develop in parallel, and that affects serve a communica…
The Development of Memory Abilities in the Individual and Society
Two themes are emphasized in this review of recent American and Soviet research and theory on the development of memory abilities: (a) Memory is conceptualized as an epiphenomenon of various cognitive activities such as classifying, rehearsing, labeling, visual imagery, and sentence elaboration. The determinants of choice among these activities are considered, and potential hindrances to the development of effective memory performance are discuss…
The Contributions of Klaus F. Riegel (1925–1977): Introduction / Man, Scholar and Scientist / A Projection of Klaus Riegel's Dialectical and Language Interests into an Experimental Systems Approach / …
This memorial symposium, originally presented at the 1977 convention of the American Psychological Association, is an overview of the contributions of Klaus F. Riegel to the field of developmental psychology. Hardesty and Baltes provide an introduction and a personal view. Birren reflects upon Riegel’s early career and the basis for his interest in dialectics. Freedle reviews Riegel’s interests in the study of language, extending this to pidgin l…
A Dialectical Approach to Moral Judgment and Self-Esteem
Dialectical models emphasize continuing development as the result of the contradiction and synthesis of opposing aspects of reality. The subject-object interaction of the dialectical model elucidates the interdependence of moral judgments and self-esteem. In a mature, dialectical morality of mediation the individual recognizes his participation in his judgments and attempts to construct resolutions of moral conflicts through compromise. Moral dev…
Family and Individual Development
Meacham contra Meacham
Meacham contra Meacham
Journal quality: The problem of size
Journal quality: The problem of size
Anxiety, Prospective Remembering, and Performance of Planned Actions
This study contrasted two models of prospective remembering: i.e., remembering in the future to perform an action that has been planned. High anxiety or discomfort is predicted by the first model to be associated with forgetting, and by the second model to be associated with remembering but not performing. Questionnaire data from 73 male and female college students support the second model (p < .01). For planned actions that were forgotten, there…
Dimensions of self-concept in preschool children
Self-descriptive data from 48 children; 8 male and 8 female 3-, and 5-year-olds, indicated the salience of activity as a dimension of the preschooler's self-concept: Analysis of responses to the 2 most open-ended measures yielded 9 response categories: actions, rulationships, body-image, possessions, personal labels, gender, age, evaluation, and personal characteristics and preferences; but only responses in the action category showed relatively …
The developing individual in a changing world, Teil 1: Historical and cultural issues
Patterns of memory abilities in two cultures
Dimensions of self-concept in preschool children
Self-descriptive data from 48 children; 8 male and 8 female 3-, and 5-year-olds, indicated the salience of activity as a dimension of the preschooler's self-concept: Analysis of responses to the 2 most open-ended measures yielded 9 response categories: actions, rulationships, body-image, possessions, personal labels, gender, age, evaluation, and personal characteristics and preferences; but only responses in the action category showed relatively …
Patterns of memory abilities in two cultures
Patterns of memory abilities in two cultures
The developing individual in a changing world, Teil 1: Historical and cultural issues
Dimensions of self-concept in preschool children
Self-descriptive data from 48 children; 8 male and 8 female 3-, and 5-year-olds, indicated the salience of activity as a dimension of the preschooler's self-concept: Analysis of responses to the 2 most open-ended measures yielded 9 response categories: actions, rulationships, body-image, possessions, personal labels, gender, age, evaluation, and personal characteristics and preferences; but only responses in the action category showed relatively …
Anxiety, Prospective Remembering, and Performance of Planned Actions
This study contrasted two models of prospective remembering: i.e., remembering in the future to perform an action that has been planned. High anxiety or discomfort is predicted by the first model to be associated with forgetting, and by the second model to be associated with remembering but not performing. Questionnaire data from 73 male and female college students support the second model (p < .01). For planned actions that were forgotten, there…
Journal quality: The problem of size
Journal quality: The problem of size
Meacham contra Meacham
Meacham contra Meacham
Family and Individual Development
Contents, Vol. 21, 1978
Implications of a Dialectical Perspective for Research Methodology / Naderizing Methodology: Discussant’s Comments / Methodological Implications of Contextual/Dialectic Theories of Development / Resea…
The papers of this symposium examine, within the context of several content areas, the methodological implications of a dialectical perspective. Rappoport reviews the four papers of the symposium suggesting that they represent a revolutionary perspective on psychological methodology. Lerner, Skinner, and Sorrell propose five prototypic issues derived from dialectics – relationism, evolving reciprocity, probabilism, timing, and the nonequivalent t…
Structuralist Perspectives on Social Development in Youth
A variety of issues regarding social and personality development in youth is currently being examined from the perspective of Piaget’s structuralist theory of development. These issues, including questions regarding the universality of formal operations and the generalizability of formal operations across various content domains, are considered in the various chapters of Social Development in Youth: Structure and Content edited by Meacham and San…
Continuing the Dialogue: Dialectics and Remembering
A dialectical approach to memories and memory abilities requires attention to relations of reciprocal causality, both between the individual and society, and within the individual. The challenge of the dialectical approach is to persist in insisting on change. Some possible directions for research and theory may lie in the examination of paradoxes in our conceptualizing of memories, and in the study of autobiographies as examples of remembering a…
Action Theory, Control and Motivation: A Symposium
This symposium includes reactions to action theory from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Eckensberger and Meacham provide a framework for discussion, defining intentional action as a basic unit of analysis that includes being future-oriented, a free choice of means, potential consciousness of goals and means, and responsibility. Boesch argues that cognitive and affective systems do not develop in parallel, and that affects serve a communica…
The Development of Memory Abilities in the Individual and Society
Two themes are emphasized in this review of recent American and Soviet research and theory on the development of memory abilities: (a) Memory is conceptualized as an epiphenomenon of various cognitive activities such as classifying, rehearsing, labeling, visual imagery, and sentence elaboration. The determinants of choice among these activities are considered, and potential hindrances to the development of effective memory performance are discuss…
The Contributions of Klaus F. Riegel (1925–1977): Introduction / Man, Scholar and Scientist / A Projection of Klaus Riegel's Dialectical and Language Interests into an Experimental Systems Approach / …
This memorial symposium, originally presented at the 1977 convention of the American Psychological Association, is an overview of the contributions of Klaus F. Riegel to the field of developmental psychology. Hardesty and Baltes provide an introduction and a personal view. Birren reflects upon Riegel’s early career and the basis for his interest in dialectics. Freedle reviews Riegel’s interests in the study of language, extending this to pidgin l…
A Dialectical Approach to Moral Judgment and Self-Esteem
Dialectical models emphasize continuing development as the result of the contradiction and synthesis of opposing aspects of reality. The subject-object interaction of the dialectical model elucidates the interdependence of moral judgments and self-esteem. In a mature, dialectical morality of mediation the individual recognizes his participation in his judgments and attempts to construct resolutions of moral conflicts through compromise. Moral dev…
Psychology (15 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Context (archaeology) (4 works)