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#796 Paul Harris - Child Psychology in Twelve Questions

The Dissenter

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The Debate in Developmental Psychology

There's an ongoing debate in developmental psychology about the extent to which the theory is a universal theory or it's about western modes of upbringing. The more, if we like, the more what can we say classically trained developmental psychologists taking a more quantitative perspective I think would insist that when you do these kinds of tests particularly the test the strange situation that Mary de Vai, Mary Maine, Mary Maine's worst devised you see broadly similar distribution of children in all sorts of different cultures. But there are some anthropologically oriented psychologists who feel that the emphasis on the charts in some sense increasing independence along with attachment is a misrepresentation of the goals and values of certain cultures where interdependence perhaps is

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