Smith Linda B., Thelen Esther
Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University, 1101 East 10th Street, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA
Trends Cogn Sci. 2003 Aug;7(8):343-348. doi: 10.1016/s1364-6613(03)00156-6.
Development is about creating something more from something less, for example, a walking and talking toddler from a helpless infant. One current theoretical framework views the developmental process as a change within a complex dynamic system. Development is seen as the emergent product of many decentralized and local interactions that occur in real time. We examine how studying the multicausality of real-time processes could be the key to understanding change over developmental time. We specifically consider recent research and theory on perseverative reaching by infants as a case study that demonstrates this approach.
发展是指用较少的东西创造出更多的东西，例如，将一个无助的婴儿变成一个会走路、会说话的幼儿。当前的一个理论框架将发展过程视为一个复杂动态系统中的变化。发展被视为实时发生的许多分散的局部相互作用的涌现产物。我们研究了如何研究实时过程的多因果关系可能是理解发展过程中变化的关键。我们特别将近期关于婴儿持续性够物的研究和理论作为一个案例研究，以展示这种方法。
