Developmental Psychology: Philosophy, Concepts, Methodology

By W. Overton. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Development of Pointing: From Personal Directedness to Interpersonal Direction (2010, background): “The two approaches we have outlined – pointing made possible by an insight regarding other people, or an infant’s understanding of such gestures emerging gradually within interaction – are based on different metatheoretical assumptions [Carpendale & Lewis, 2010; Jopling, 1993; Overton, 2006].”
Emphasizing Intraindividual Variability in the Study of Development Over the Life Span (2010, background): “Taken seriously, we believe that a sincere appreciation for variation within the individual over time or situation, or both, has powerful, far-reaching implications for how one studies most behavioral phenomena, including developmental ones (e.g., see Baltes, Reese, & Nesselroade, 1977; Lerner, Schw”
A Coherent Metatheory for Dynamic Systems: Relational Organicism-Contextualism (2007, background): “Relational metatheories aim to transform classically fundamental dichotomies into indissociable complementarities through the relational principles of holism, identify of opposites, opposites of identities, and syntheses of wholes [Overton, 2006].”
Contextualized Personality, beyond Traits (2015, background): “‘Relations’ and ‘influence’ can, of course, be interpreted from various perspectives, or ‘meta-theories’ (Overton, 2006).”
Developmental Assets: An Overview of Theory, Research, and Practice (2007, background): “…assumptions and components that, in combination, position human development in relational and contextual space, and in contrast to earlier developmental theories that split development into such polarities as nature–nurture, biology–culture and individual– society (Lerner, 1998; Overton, 1998).”
Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence: Toward a Field of Inquiry (2003, background): “In the same way that developmental psychology has moved beyond stage theory (e.g., Overton, 1998), spiritual development must also move beyond an overreliance on stage theory, which “implies a certain amount of discontinuity in religious [and spiritual] development,whereas…”
Taking Emergence Seriously: The Centrality of Circular Causality for Dynamic Systems Approaches to Development (2011, background): “Any approach to developmental science is explanatorily incomplete without an appreciation of action in both these instrumental-communicative and expressive-constitutive terms [Overton, 2006, 2010].”
Exemplifying the Integrations of the Relational Developmental System (2008, background): “Throughout its history, the study of human development has been the captive of numerous fundamental antinomies (Overton, 1998, 2006).”