Child Development and the PITS: Simple Questions, Complex Answers, and Developmental Theory. [1999 Presidential Address to the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)].

Horowitz, Frances Degen

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Child Development and the PITS: Simple Questions, Complex Answers, and Developmental Theory. [1999 Presidential Address to the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)].

Horowitz, Frances Degen

Child Development, v71 n1 p1-10 Jan-Feb 2000

Discusses responsibility of developmental scientists to convey the complexity of development lest oversimplified popular accounts gain credibility. Presents a model of development elaborating on the role of experience in relation to constitutional, cultural, economic, and social factors contributing to children's development. Discusses importance of accommodating data from prior theories and from neuroimaging studies. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology, Economic Factors, Individual Development, Individual Differences, Information Dissemination, Models, Researchers, Scholarship, Social Influences, Theories

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