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RULES AND RECIPROCITY IN BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION
Author(s) -
Bateson P. P. G.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1983.tb00099.x
Subject(s) - psychology , opposition (politics) , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , rehabilitation , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , neuroscience , politics , political science , law
SUMMARY This article considers the potential value of two bodies of thought arising from work on animals in connection with rehabilitating abnormal behaviour. One deals with the processes of catch‐up and self‐regulation, and the other with optimal periods of learning in development. The ideas about self‐regulation are important because an individual with abnormal behaviour at one stage in development may cease to be abnormal of its own accord. The sensitive period concept in development has often been seen as being opposed to that of possible adult rehabilitation. Much of the animal evidence suggests that the opposition is false.