TY - JOUR
AU - MacDonald, Kevin
AB - This paper attempts to describe links between the transactional or dialectical andthe mechanistic models of development and to provide a rationale for why both typesare useful. Examples of data sets, deriving principally from the early experienceliterature, are provided which conform to both, and it is concluded that theapplicability of the model for describing behavioral development is stronglyinfluenced by where the individual stands on three empirical dimensions: (1) therelative power of the environments that the individual is exposed to; (2) theplasticity of the individual's behavior; and (3) the deviation of the individualfrom developmental norms. These factors crucially affect the degree of reciprocityfound in organism-environment interactions, and the results suggest that differencesbetween developmental models are reconcilable.
TI - Developmental Models and Early Experience
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
DO - 10.1177/016502548600900203
DA - 1986-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/developmental-models-and-early-experience-B3WES0qSQ2
SP - 175
EP - 190
VL - 9
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -