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Stein, Aletha H.; Baltes, Paul B. – 1975
This paper elucidates the implications of life-span developmental psychology for theory and method in the field of child development. Emphasis is given to three theoretical issues: (1) historical-evolutionary versus ontogenetic components of change, (2) the role of chronological age, and (3) continuity versus discontinuity in the description and…
Descriptors: Age, Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Child Development
Atkinson, Christine – 1983
In all of his published work, Jean Piaget never abandoned his original theoretical framework for the understanding of human development. This framework insists that intelligence is essentially a biological phenomenon; its development is best understood as the development of a sophisticated and highly successful adaptation device. This device…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology