In Defense of Qualitative Changes in Development

Author: Kagan, Jerome

Source: Child Development, Volume 79, Number 6, November/December 2008 , pp. 1606-1624(19)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

The balance between the preservation of early cognitive functions and serious transformations on these functions shifts across time. Piaget's writings, which favored transformations, are being replaced by writings that emphasize continuities between select cognitive functions of infants and older children. The claim that young infants possess elements present in the older child's concepts of number, physical impossibility, and object permanence is vulnerable to criticism because the inferences are based primarily on the single measure of change in looking time. It is suggested that investigators use unique constructs to describe phenomena observed in young infants that appear, on the surface, to resemble the psychological competences observed during later developmental stages.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01211.x

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