developmentalist
- noun
- /dɪˌvɛl.əpˈmɛn.təl.ɪst/
- Specialized
- The PCI, however, was not purely developmentalist.
Examples
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Some of the early scholars of development resented these new approaches as undermining and breaking the unity of the field (as well as their own monopoly of it), but others saw them as adding healthy diversity, providing an alternative variety of approaches, and enlightening subject areas not covered by the earlier developmentalist perspective.
Academic text (1999) -
When developmentalists look at how infants coordinate and control their movements, they are apt to approach the topic from one of two widely accepted viewpoints.
Academic text (1996) -
This means that it is difficult to find a language to talk about a developmentalist and socially responsible state without triggering a hostile and defensive reaction among international and domestic capital, which would easily translate into capital flight.
Academic text (1992) -
Developmentalists profess interest in process more than outcome, whereas behavioral geneticists are viewed as "merely" studying outcomes on some measured traits.
Blog text (1) -
It is the developmentalist who uses this method while recognizing the developmental stages of children's writing, and in the beginning stages of writing, allows for many spelling inventions or constructions before children reach conventional spelling.
Academic text (1999) -
Instead, Kliebard lists four groups who, he thinks, fought to control the curriculum from 1893 to 1958: the humanists, the developmentalists, the social efficiency educators, and the social meliorists.
Academic text (2002) -
Developmentalists, through new and intensive observation, have discovered a considerable amount about the emotional responses of even very tiny babies, going very far beyond Watson's early dogma that the only unlearned emotions are those associated with loud noises and falling.
Academic text (1993) -
Although most developmentalists would view measures of learning performance as more basic than performance on psychometric measures of cognitive abilities, to a neuroscientist thinking about neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, both types of measures would appear to be molar outcomes of complex neural processes.
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A developmentalist carefully observes how children's interaction with their environment influences their learning skills.
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The developmentalist explained the importance of early childhood experiences in shaping a child's future behavior and cognition.
Surface Forms
Morphology
developmentalist = developmental (transparent) = develop + ment + al + ist
The immediate base developmental is itself transparent, and adding -ist straightforwardly yields a person associated with development.
Etymology
Developmentalist comes from development (from develop, meaning 'grow') and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who studies or works on something', as in artist. So a developmentalist in education or health is a person who studies how babies and children 'grow' in their bodies and minds.