Discontinuities Versus Continuities in Behavioural Development and the Neglect of Process
Discontinuities Versus Continuities in Behavioural Development and the Neglect of Process
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行为发展的不连续性与连续性以及过程的忽视
DOI：
10.1177/016502548400700202
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发表时间：
1984
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
P. Bateson
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作者：
R. Hinde;P. Bateson
行为发展是连续的，儿童在每个时间点的状态都会影响未来的行为，这种观点最近受到质疑。然而，在不同阶段的基本组织之间的根本不连续性的证据在性质上有很大的不同，往往是模棱两可的。表面上的不连续可能是由于一些微不足道的原因而出现的。此外，在发展过程中，行为的明确的突然变化可能来自组织的基本水平的持续变化。行为和潜在的“心理结构”之间不需要有直接的关系。此外，变异来源之间复杂的相互作用，以及发展过程中存在的消极和积极反馈机制，使得特定经验的影响难以预测。由于这些不同的原因，有人认为，关于发展是连续的还是不连续的观点的两极分化是分散注意力的，容易妨碍对发展过程的理解。
The view that behavioural development is continuous, with the child's state at each point in time influencing future behaviour, has recently been challenged. However, the evidence for radical discontinuities between underlying organisations at different stages varies greatly in character and is often equivocal. Apparent discontinuities may appear for trivial reasons. Furthermore, an unequivocal sudden change in behaviour in the course of development may arise from continuous change at an underlying level of organisation. There need be no straightforward relationship between behaviour and the underlying 'psychological structure'. In addition, the complex interaction between sources of variation, and the existence of negative and positive feedback mechanisms in development, make the effects of a given experience difficult to predict. For these different reasons it is argued that a polarisation of views about whether development is continuous or discontinuous is distracting and liable to impede understanding of developmental processes.