Psychology
Developmental processes, levels of analysis, and ways of knowing: New perspectives on human development
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This volume, with three parts, addresses fundamental issues in the study of human development. Typically, theories of human development are framed in terms of either/ or, mutually exclusive alternatives such as: what is the source of development - nature or nurture? Is development characterized by quantitative or qualitative changes? Is there one universal course of development, or are there many that differ by cultural context or even unique personal and environmental circumstances? Developmental theorists have also struggled with defining the relations between biology, psychology, and social-cultural context, often reducing psychological function of the person either to biological functioning or to conditioning by the sociocultural context. These discussions have also played out in slightly different ways for different areas of human development - whether cognitive, social, or pertaining to language and communicative development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Publication Title
New Perspectives on Human Development
Publication Date
2017
First Page
1
Last Page
12
ISBN
9781316282755,9781107112322
DOI
10.1017/CBO9781316282755.002
Repository Citation
Budwig, Nancy; Turiel, Elliot; and Zelazo, Philip David, "Developmental processes, levels of analysis, and ways of knowing: New perspectives on human development" (2017). Psychology. 180.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_psychology/180