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Child Development and the PITS: Simple Questions, Complex Answers, and Developmental Theory
Author(s) -
Horowitz Frances Degen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8624.00112
Subject(s) - credibility , psychology , child development , field (mathematics) , development theory , developmental stage theories , relation (database) , simple (philosophy) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , computer science , economics , economic growth , philosophy , mathematics , database , pure mathematics
The enormous popular interest in the field of child development makes it incumbent upon developmental scientists to convey with care the complexity of development lest oversimplified popular accounts gain credibility. Recent attempted models of development do include the range of variables and complexities that need to be accommodated in accounting for development. A model is presented here that incorporates many of the elements of recent models but elaborates on the role of experience in relation to the constitutional, cultural, economic, and social factors that contribute to advantages and disadvantages in children's development. The importance of accommodating data from prior theoretical perspectives and the importance of the contributions from neuroimaging studies are discussed as they are critical for successful theory building in the field of child development.