doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01211.x.
In defense of qualitative changes in development
Affiliations
- PMID: 19037935
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01211.x
Item in Clipboard
In defense of qualitative changes in development
Child Dev.
2008 Nov-Dec.
Abstract
The balance between the preservation of early cognitive functions and serious transformations on these functions shifts across time. Piaget's writings, which favored transformations, are being replaced by writings that emphasize continuities between select cognitive functions of infants and older children. The claim that young infants possess elements present in the older child's concepts of number, physical impossibility, and object permanence is vulnerable to criticism because the inferences are based primarily on the single measure of change in looking time. It is suggested that investigators use unique constructs to describe phenomena observed in young infants that appear, on the surface, to resemble the psychological competences observed during later developmental stages.
Comment in
-
Rediscovering development in infancy.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1625-32. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01212.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037936
-
In defense of core competencies, quantitative change, and continuity.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1633-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01213.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037937 Free PMC article.
-
Defending qualitative change: the view from dynamical systems theory.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1639-47. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01214.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037938
-
In defense of change processes.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1648-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01215.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037939 Free PMC article.
-
Methodological and epistemological issues in the interpretation of infant cognitive development.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1654-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01216.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037940
Similar articles
-
Continuities and discontinuities in children and scholarship.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1600-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01210.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037934
-
Mechanisms of theory formation in young children.Trends Cogn Sci. 2004 Aug;8(8):371-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.06.005. Trends Cogn Sci. 2004. PMID: 15335464 Review.
-
The integration of cognition and emotion during infancy and early childhood: regulatory processes associated with the development of working memory.Brain Cogn. 2007 Oct;65(1):3-13. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.01.009. Epub 2007 Jul 13. Brain Cogn. 2007. PMID: 17630061
-
Rediscovering development in infancy.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1625-32. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01212.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037936
-
Taking an action perspective on infant's object representations.Prog Brain Res. 2007;164:265-82. doi: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64015-1. Prog Brain Res. 2007. PMID: 17920437 Review.
Cited by
-
The origins of social impairments in autism spectrum disorder: studies of infants at risk.Neural Netw. 2010 Oct-Nov;23(8-9):1072-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2010.07.008. Epub 2010 Aug 6. Neural Netw. 2010. PMID: 20800990 Free PMC article. Review.
-
A Developmental Perspective on the Origins of Morality in Infancy and Early Childhood.Front Psychol. 2018 Sep 20;9:1736. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01736. eCollection 2018. Front Psychol. 2018. PMID: 30294291 Free PMC article.
-
In defense of core competencies, quantitative change, and continuity.Child Dev. 2008 Nov-Dec;79(6):1633-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01213.x. Child Dev. 2008. PMID: 19037937 Free PMC article.
-
Developmental progression of looking and reaching performance on the A-not-B task.Dev Psychol. 2010 Sep;46(5):1363-71. doi: 10.1037/a0020185. Dev Psychol. 2010. PMID: 20822245 Free PMC article.
-
Autonomy in action: linking the act of looking to memory formation in infancy via dynamic neural fields.Cogn Sci. 2013 Jan-Feb;37(1):1-60. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12010. Epub 2012 Nov 8. Cogn Sci. 2013. PMID: 23136815 Free PMC article.
MeSH terms
LinkOut - more resources
Full Text Sources
Medical
