Introduction: Reassessing Developmental Systems Theory

Introduction to Systems Theory

Systems theory and cascades in developmental psychopathology.

In the wake of prominent theoreticians in developmental science, whose contributions we review in this article, many developmental psychologists came to endorse a systems approach to understanding how the individual, as it develops, establishes functional relationships to social ecological contexts that from birth to school entry rapidly increase in complexity. The concept of developmental casc...

The Organism in Developmental Systems Theory (DST)

In this paper, I address the question of what the Developmental Systems Theory (DST) aims at explaining. I distinguish two lines of thought in DST, one which deals specifically with development, and tries to explain the development of the individual organism, and the other which presents itself as a reconceptualization of evolution, and tries to explain the evolution of populations of developme...

Introduction to developmental robotics

ISSN: 0954-0091 (Print) 1360-0494 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ccos20 Introduction to developmental robotics Lisa A. Meeden & Douglas S. Blank To cite this article: Lisa A. Meeden & Douglas S. Blank (2006) Introduction to developmental robotics, Connection Science, 18:2, 93-96, DOI: 10.1080/09540090600806631 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0954009...

Introduction. Homology in developmental psychology.