...Elliot Turiel A history of research on the development of morality yields valuable lessons. In 1932, Piaget examined children’s moral judgments, proposing that actions feedback on judgments, which in turn feedback on actions. He analyzed children’s entry into the moral realm through a sense...

... differentiating and integrating modes of acting and the action subprocesses that comprise them (Raeff, 2016). For example, scaffolding -includes breaking action down into differentiated parts and can also include helping a developing person to integrate the parts through instructing and commenting on what...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Action Developmental frameworks Nativism Representation We are in strong agreement with many of the conclusions of Fields's discussion [this issue], and would like...

...Claes von Hofsten The concept of action is examined, with particular attention to the ontogenetic origin of actions and their developmental course. It is argued that actions constitute dynamic interactions between an organism and the outside world which, by necessity, have to be future-oriented...

... Wallon (1879–1962) also figures in this framework. Wallon, considered in France as one of the founding fathers of child psychology, like Vygotsky focused on the creative nature of the psychological processes relating action and representation. He examined these processes as they develop in the course...

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... it is claimed to, and thus neither can do justice to the notion of active knowing. The positivism of Piaget’s peculiar brand of cybernetic bio-psychology precludes the understanding of either perception or action, with the result that his ‘interactionism’ fails to account for the crucial relationships between...

...Hans Furth An overview of 17 theses is presented of John Macmurray’s philosophy of the person. Since it takes the standpoint of personal actions and interpersonal relations as primary, it provides a powerful framework for a comprehensive study of human development and for a constructivist...

...Lutz H. Eckensberger; John A. Meacham This symposium includes reactions to action theory from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Eckensberger and Meacham provide a framework for discussion, defining intentional action as a basic unit of analysis that includes being future-oriented, a free...

...Michael Frese; Judith Stewart An action theoretic account of skill learning and skill use is offered as a useful heuristic for life-span developmental psychology. It is suggested that analyses of the tasks confronting an individual and of the structure of action, as well as of the interplay...

...Michael Chapman This symposium is devoted to the question of whether and to what extent action may constitute a useful paradigm for developmental psychology, where ‘action’ is understood as voluntary behavior employed by the agent as a means of attaining certain ends. In the first contribution...

... University, Manhattan, Kans. Key Words. Action Behavior Dialectics Intuition Praxis Quasirationality Thought Abstract. The implications of the concept of praxis for general and developmental psychology are discussed via illustrations drawn from the writings of Laing and Mao Tse Tung. Different...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Action Development Infancy Plasticity Transitions Commentary Human Development 1998;41:112 115 Primacy of Action in Early Ontogeny Philippe Rochat, Tricia Striano...