The mountain stream of infant development

IF 2 2区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Infancy Pub Date : 2023-03-24 DOI:10.1111/infa.12538
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
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Abstract

Development is complex. It encompasses interacting domains, at multiple levels, across nested time scales. Embracing the complexity of development—while addressing the challenges inherent to studying infants—requires researchers to make tough decisions about what to study, why, how, where, and when. My own view is inspired by a developmental systems approach, and echoed in Esther Thelen's (2005) mountain stream metaphor. Like a river that carves its course, the active infant navigates the social and physical environment and generates rich inputs that propel learning and development. Drawing from my experiences, I offer some recommendations to guide research on infants. I encourage researchers to embrace discovery science; to observe infants in ecologically valid settings; to recognize the active and adaptive nature of infant behavior; to break down silos and consider the nonobvious; and to adopt full transparency in all aspects of research. I draw on cascading influences in infant play, language, and motor domains to illustrate the value of a bottom-up, cross-domain, collaborative approach.

婴儿发育的山间溪流
发展是复杂的。它包含在多个层次上、跨越嵌套时间尺度的交互域。接受发展的复杂性——同时解决研究婴儿的固有挑战——要求研究人员在研究什么、为什么、如何、在哪里、何时等问题上做出艰难的决定。我自己的观点受到了发展系统方法的启发,并在Esther Thelen(2005)的山溪比喻中得到了呼应。像河流一样,活跃的婴儿在社会和自然环境中航行,并产生促进学习和发展的丰富输入。根据我的经验,我提出了一些指导婴儿研究的建议。我鼓励研究人员拥抱发现科学;观察在生态有效环境下的婴儿;认识到婴儿行为的主动性和适应性;打破藩篱,考虑不明显的东西;并在研究的各个方面采取完全透明的做法。我利用婴儿游戏、语言和运动领域的级联影响来说明自下而上、跨领域、合作方法的价值。
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Infancy
Infancy PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
CiteScore
4.00
自引率
7.70%
发文量
72
期刊介绍: Infancy, the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, emphasizes the highest quality original research on normal and aberrant infant development during the first two years. Both human and animal research are included. In addition to regular length research articles and brief reports (3000-word maximum), the journal includes solicited target articles along with a series of commentaries; debates, in which different theoretical positions are presented along with a series of commentaries; and thematic collections, a group of three to five reports or summaries of research on the same issue, conducted independently at different laboratories, with invited commentaries.
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