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A main issue in the psychological study of child development
is the scarcity of a contextual approach. The
prominence of the mechanistic and organismic models
in developmental psychology and the stress on the
individual as the unit of analysis have worked as
deterrents to contextual conceptualizations of child
development. The mechanistic model, used by behaviorism,
has construed ‘‘environment’’ in a very limited
sense as proximal stimuli. Read the rest of this entry »