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Demetriou, Andreas; Raftopoulos, Athanasios – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
Developmental psychologists have been preoccupied with the shape or form of development since the early days of developmental psychology. One of their main concerns has been to specify the developmental function of the characteristics (i.e., behaviors, traits, abilities, processes, etc.) that are of interest to them. This is equivalent to saying…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Developmental Psychology, Individual Characteristics, Differences
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Nelson, Charles A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
All of the target articles in this issue are concerned with trajectories of development, with all focusing in one way or another on U-shaped functions. For purposes of this commentary, the author is primarily concerned with the Cashon and Cohen article. The mechanisms whereby one processes faces represent one of several perceptual/cognitive…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Human Body, Recognition (Psychology), Visual Discrimination