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Gummerum, Michaela; Hanoch, Yaniv; Keller, Monika – Human Development, 2008
Game theory has been one of the most prominent theories in the social sciences, influencing diverse academic disciplines such as anthropology, biology, economics, and political science. In recent years, economists have employed game theory to investigate behaviors relating to fairness, reciprocity, and trust. Surprisingly, this research has not…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Child Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Developmental Psychology
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Keil, Frank C. – Human Development, 2007
The assumption of domain specificity has been invaluable to the study of the emergence of biological thought in young children. Yet, domains of thought must be understood within a broader context that explains how those domains relate to the surrounding cultures, to different kinds of cognitive constraints, to framing effects, to abilities to…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Processes, Young Children, Child Development
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Ginsburg, Herbert P. – Human Development, 2009
The developmental psychology of mathematical thinking and the clinical interview method can make major contributions to education by transforming the process of formative assessment--the attempt to use information concerning student performance, knowledge, learning potential, and motivation to inform instruction. The clinical interview is a…
Descriptors: Interviews, Mathematics Education, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Greeno, James G.; Saxe, Geoffrey B. – Human Development, 2007
In Giyoo Hatano's passing, we have lost an esteemed colleague and a treasured friend. Among his many contributions to our field, our work, and our lives, we honor and build on his and his colleagues' work on conceptual growth. We liken the view developed by Hatano and his colleagues to Toulmin's evolutionary scheme for understanding conceptual…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Concept Formation, Children, Child Development
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Acredolo, Linda P.; Acredolo, Curt – Human Development, 1979
Briefly describes similarities and differences between the 1977 and the 1979 meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development. Mentions key topics, speakers, and program innovations at the 1979 meeting. (SS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Conferences, Developmental Psychology, Program Content
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Overton, Willis F. – Human Development, 1997
Notes the self-conscious reflection that emerges in the fifth edition of the "Handbook of Child Psychology." Identifies several dichotomies in developmental psychology, such as change as variational or transformational, and sees these dichotomies in the context of modernist and postmodernist attitudes. Suggests that developmental…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual History, Modernism
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Cahan, Emily D.; White, Sheldon H. – Human Development, 1997
The lineage of developmental psychology has involved three waves of research in the 1890s (Hall), 1930s, and 1960s (Piaget). Over these years, a cooperative knowledge-building process arose, fostered by new journals in the 1930s, in which articles built upon one another and sustained or redirected trains of thought among a community of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual History, Periodicals
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Martin, Jack – Human Development, 2006
Toward the end of his life, George Herbert Mead developed a theory of perspectives that may be used to reinterpret his social, developmental psychology. This paper attempts such a reinterpretation, leading to the emergence of a theory of perspective taking in early childhood that looks quite different from that which is assumed in most extant work…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Perspective Taking, Young Children, Social Psychology
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Nelson, Charles A.; Moulson, Margaret C.; Richmond, Jenny – Human Development, 2006
The fields of developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience have existed independently of one another for many years. This is unfortunate, as knowledge of how the brain develops can inform the study of behavioral development. In this paper, we provide two examples of how knowledge about brain development has improved our understanding of…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Development, Brain, Behavioral Sciences
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Damon, William – Human Development, 1997
Reviews the history of the several editions of the "Handbook of Child Psychology" from 1931 to the present. Identifies continuing themes and alterations in theoretical orientation within the field of human development that are found in the handbook's editions. Discusses the strategy behind and the contents of the 1997 edition. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Guides
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Youniss, James – Human Development, 1994
Briefly summarizes Vygotsky's life, the appeal and subsequent abandonment of his ideas in the 1960s, and renewal of interest in the 1970s and 1980s (often at the expense of Piaget). Praises van der Veer and Valsinger's book as a realistic picture of Vygotsky's background, life, and work, of the scientific and political context in Russia and of his…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J. – Human Development, 1997
Reflects on four aspects of the history of developmental psychology. Notes that the discipline has followed a path from fact collection without theory, to grand theories, to a profusion of minitheories; expanded focus from child to lifespan development; exhibited increased cross-disciplinary interests; and become more sensitive to addressing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Ethnic Bias, Intellectual History
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Bradley, Ben S. – Human Development, 1996
Suggests that Greenberg's challenge to the centrality of object permanence in developmental thinking reveals that developmentalists' theories about childhood speak about their own self-images. Notes that developmentalists have been guilty of not only the object permanence fallacy but also the genetic fallacy, or the mistaken belief that describing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Psychology
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Keegan, Robert T.; Gruber, Howard E. – Human Development, 1994
Comments on Bradley's interpretation (PS 522 367) of Darwin's baby observations in this issue. Argues that Bradley reduced Darwin to a mere rhetorician, exaggerated Erasmus Darwin's influence, and diminished the importance of intertextual links in Darwin's own previous writings. Disagrees that Darwin's primary motive was rhetorical and suggests…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
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White, Sheldon H. – Human Development, 1994
Comments sympathetically on Bradley's interpretation (PS 522 367) of Darwin's baby observations in this issue. Draws from Bradley to provide a sketch of the politics of child development as a human enterprise, and questions the view of developmental psychology as a positivistic, value-free field. (TM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
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