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The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children
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Whiten, Andrew; Flynn, Emma – Developmental Psychology, 2010
A new experimental microculture approach was developed to investigate the creation and transmission of differing traditions in small communities of young children. Four playgroups, with a total of 88 children, participated. In each of 2 playgroups, a single child was shown how to use 1 of 2 alternative methods of tool use, "lift" or "poke," to…
Descriptors: Socialization, Play, Young Children, Rewards
The Complexity of Infant Development. An Essay Review
Provence, Sally – Children, 1970
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Methods
Arnold L. Gesell: The Paradox of Nature and Nurture.
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Thelen, Esther; Adolph, Karen E. – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Examines the impact of Arnold L. Gesell on developmental psychology. Gesell is best remembered for his developmental norms, acquired from observations of infants and children. Gesell's ideas about maturation have lost favor, but his belief in infants' native abilities is still a dominant theme in theories. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Methods
Commentary.
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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
Commentary.
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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
Reply.
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Bradley, Ben S. – Human Development, 1994
Responds to commentaries by Keegan and Gruber on Bradley's article in this issue, refuting charges of oversimplification of Darwin's ideas. States that the Darwin example undermines the notion that developmental psychology is insulated from cultural preoccupations, arguing that Darwin is important for introducing a new psychological poetic.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Darwin's Intertextual Baby: Erasmus Darwin as Precursor in Child Psychology.
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Bradley, Ben S. – Human Development, 1994
Notes that Charles Darwin's observations on babies are not examples of data collected to test hypotheses. Draws from Bakhtin to argue that they extend and vary existing modes of discourse, primarily debates about the place of instinct in language acquisition, traceable to his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. Concludes that the significance of Darwin's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
A Dynamic Developmental Model of Suicide.
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Mishara, Brian L. – Human Development, 1996
Analyzes suicide in terms of a dynamic model of changes in suicidal tendencies over time. Suggests that minor fluctuations may incite rapid development toward suicide or inhabit suicidality. Notes that this method of analysis and developmental modeling is applicable to other phenomena involving development in complex human behaviors in an open…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Change, Child Development
[A Dynamic Developmental Model of Suicide.] Commentary.
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Campbell, Robert L. – Human Development, 1996
Discusses Mishara's use of phrase space analysis to chart the developmental dynamics of suicide. Contends that developmentalists should concern themselves with mental ontology, especially epistemic questions, in order to advance understanding of the development of the human mind. Considers the affinity of interactivism with a dynamic systems…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Change, Child Development