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The Life Course as Developmental Theory.
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Elder, Glen H., Jr. – Child Development, 1998
When pioneering longitudinal studies of child development extended into adulthood, they generated issues that could not be addressed satisfactorily by available theories, including the recognition that individual lives are influenced by their ever-changing historical context and that human development concepts should apply to processes across the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Child Development, Context Effect, Developmental Psychology
On the Importance of Comparative Research: The Case of Folkbiology.
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Coley, John D. – Child Development, 2000
Examines research in folkbiology (commonsense understandings of plants and animals) to argue that several lines of comparative research are needed to understand the acquisition of folkbiology in particular and conceptual development in general. Asserts that comparisons are needed between children and adults within a given society, between adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Biology, Children, Cognitive Development
Does Memory Development Belong on an Endangered Topic List?
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Kuhn, Deanna – Child Development, 2000
Suggests that the study of memory needs to be situated within broader conceptual and research contexts. Examines how four contexts accommodate memory phenomena: (1) knowledge; (2) comprehension; (3) context/function; and (4) strategy. Suggests that memories are best examined as knowledge structures resulting from efforts to understand, and that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension
The Role of Context in the Development of Psychopathology: A Conceptual Framework and Some Speculative Propositions.
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Steinberg, Laurence; Avenevoli, Shelli – Child Development, 2000
Argues that extant research assessing relations between contextual factors and psychological disturbance has confused two different roles of context. Suggests that environmental factors are nonspecific stressors and elicit psychopathology, with specificity of expressed psychopathology governed by individual differences, and that context is…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Children, Context Effect, Emotional Disturbances
Grounding Development in Cognitive Processes.
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Samuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 2000
Argues that the operating characteristics of perceiving and remembering provide a foundation for progress on detailing the processes through which knowledge is realized in real-time tasks and in detailing the processes of developmental change. Includes three examples to illustrate how forming developmental hypotheses in terms of perceiving and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
The Future of Infant Categorization Research: A Process-Oriented Approach.
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Oakes, Lisa M.; Madole, Kelly L. – Child Development, 2000
Calls for a process-oriented approach to study of categorization in infancy. Maintains that further understanding of infant categorization and its changes with development requires a more direct assessment of infants' category formation. Argues that two research directions will enhance understanding of categorization: (1) contextual variations on…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Fatherhood in the Twenty-First Century.
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Cabrera, Natasha J.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Bradley, Robert H.; Hofferth, Sandra; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2000
Discusses how social trends changed father involvement and family life, and in turn affected children's and fathers' developmental trajectories. Examines how today's children will construct expectations about fathers' and mothers' roles. Maintains that a life-span approach considers the broader sociohistorical context in which fatherhood develops.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Context Effect