The Dynamic Systems Approach as Metatheory for Developmental Psychology

By David C. Witherington. Human Development, 2007

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Stepping off the pendulum: Why only an action-based approach can transcend the nativist–empiricist debate (2013, background): “At the center of the issue of whether or not DFT provides an adequate 'representational bridge' from " motor " systems to " cognitive " systems is the issue of emergence [for a recent discussion of DST and emergence see Witherington (2007, 2011)].”
Adolescent–Parent Relationships: Progress, Processes, and Prospects (2019, background): “In particular, and as discussed in several sections below, dynamic systems theories (Witherington 2007) have provided novel conceptual and methodological approaches to studies of adolescent–parent relationships (e.g., Granic et al. 2003).”
A New Paradigm for Developmental Science: Relationism and Relational-Developmental Systems (2013, background): “For the same reason, relationalism rejects both the mechanistic worldview and a strict contextualist interpretation of the contextualist worldview (Overton, 2007a; Witherington, 2007).”
Taking Emergence Seriously: The Centrality of Circular Causality for Dynamic Systems Approaches to Development (2011, background): “…via circular causality, embraces causal pluralism and Emergence and Circular Causality in Dynamic Systems 77Human Development 2011;54:66–92 the irreducibility of formal and final causes to efficient cause, and fully admits higher-order forms into its explanatory framework [Witherington, 2007].”