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Theory building in developmental psychology
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ISBN: 9780080866901 0080866905 Year: 1986 Publisher: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Sole distributors for the U.S.A.and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co

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Discussing (from various viewpoints) problems in theory building and theory evaluation, this book starts from the assumption that theories of development are particular ways of defining the concept of psychological development in terms of a specific conceptual framework, as well as in terms of a specific empirical range (nature of the explained phenomena, prototypical experiments and applications, etc.). The first three parts deal with basic problems in modern developmental psychology, namely ways of describing development and how they direct theory formation; causes and conditions of developme.

Theory building in developmental psychology
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ISBN: 0444700420 9786612754791 1282754793 0080866905 9780080866901 9780444700421 Year: 1986 Volume: 36 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y. : North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,

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Discussing (from various viewpoints) problems in theory building and theory evaluation, this book starts from the assumption that theories of development are particular ways of defining the concept of psychological development in terms of a specific conceptual framework, as well as in terms of a specific empirical range (nature of the explained phenomena, prototypical experiments and applications, etc.).The first three parts deal with basic problems in modern developmental psychology, namely ways of describing development and how they direct theory formation; causes and conditions of d


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Toward a process approach in psychology : stepping into Heraclitus' river
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ISBN: 1108857892 1108859186 1108490905 9781108859189 9781108490900 1108853889 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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Psychological science constructs much of the knowledge that we consume in our everyday lives. This book is a systematic analysis of this process, and of the nature of the knowledge it produces. The authors show how mainstream scientific activity treats psychological properties as being fundamentally stable, universal, and isolable. They then challenge this status quo by inviting readers to recognize that dynamics, context-specificity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty, are a natural and exciting part of human psychology - these are not things to be avoided and feared, but instead embraced. This requires a shift toward a process-based approach that recognizes the situated, time-dependent, and fundamentally processual nature of psychological phenomena. With complex dynamic systems as a framework, this book sketches out how we might move toward a process-based praxis that is more suitable and effective for understanding human functioning.

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Psychology --- Philosophy.


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Toward a process approach in psychology : stepping into Heraclitus' river
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ISBN: 9781108859189 9781108490900 9781108796651 1108490905 1108853889 1108857892 1108859186 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Psychological science constructs much of the knowledge that we consume in our everyday lives. This book is a systematic analysis of this process, and of the nature of the knowledge it produces. The authors show how mainstream scientific activity treats psychological properties as being fundamentally stable, universal, and isolable. They then challenge this status quo by inviting readers to recognize that dynamics, context-specificity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty, are a natural and exciting part of human psychology - these are not things to be avoided and feared, but instead embraced. This requires a shift toward a process-based approach that recognizes the situated, time-dependent, and fundamentally processual nature of psychological phenomena. With complex dynamic systems as a framework, this book sketches out how we might move toward a process-based praxis that is more suitable and effective for understanding human functioning.

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Psychology --- Philosophy.


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Toward a process approach in psychology : stepping into Heraclitus' river
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ISBN: 9781108859189 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Invariants et variabilités dans les sciences cognitives

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« Comme toutes les sciences, les sciences cognitives sont confrontées à la variabilité des phénomènes qu'elles étudient, et cherchent à dégager de cette variabilité un ensemble de régularités, d'invariants, sur lesquels ancrer les connaissances. Cette quête d'invariance implique des choix quant aux formes de variabilité à prendre en considération. Certaines, jugées pertinentes pour l'objet d'étude, sont utilisées ou manipulées pour en extraire des invariants, tandis que d'autres, jugées sans importance, sont négligées ou neutralisées. Concernant ces choix, les opinions et les pratiques sont changeantes selon les époques, l'état d'avancement des disciplines ou les courants théoriques au sein d'une même discipline. Des formes de variabilité ignorées à une époque peuvent devenir intéressantes un peu plus tard. Il semble précisément que nous soyons à une époque où le regard porté sur la variabilité évolue, notamment dans les sciences cognitives. La recherche d'universaux a souvent conduit à centrer l'analyse sur les tendances moyennes et à attribuer la variabilité observée autour de ces tendances aux erreurs de mesure ou à des bruits parasites sans grande importance. Or, dans beaucoup de disciplines concernées par la cognition, le rôle reconnu à la variabilité dans les mécanismes adaptatifs et, plus particulièrement, dans les processus d'auto-organisation, conduit à reconsidérer son statut. Cette évolution des idées suscite un regain d'intérêt pour l'étude des différentes formes de variabilité - intra-individuelle, interindividuelle, intergroupes, inter-langues, interculturelles, etc. - et conduit souvent à questionner, repenser, les invariants dans le domaine de la cognition. La recherche de nouvelles formes d'articulation entre les variabilités et les invariants apparaît donc comme un des thèmes émergents autour desquels peuvent se nouer - entre les sciences cognitives - des échanges fructueux aux plans épistémologique, théorique et méthodologique. »

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