Biology, context, and developmental inquiry.
This chapter summarizes some of the conceptual changes in developmental research over the last half-century. These advances include an acknowledgment of the role of maturation; also recognized have been the need for positing distinct psychological structures, the influence of temperament, the malleability of the infant, the role of the local context, and the dynamic nature of the categories describing human psychological types.
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. jk@wjh.harvard.edu
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Kagan
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007804:Language Development; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D012931:Social Environment; D013694:Temperament