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Development of Hemispheric Specialization

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This chapter is the first of six chapters on causality, determinants, and origins of behavior. The first two parts of the book especially have dealt with the product or content of development, or the what, particularly in terms of the present Neo-Piagetian stage model and socioaffective correspondences. In these next six chapters, I deal with the process, transition mechanisms, or the how and why of development. Fitting the contemporary zeitgeist, I emphasize the interaction of biology and environment. However, I include the developing individual as the seat of the interaction and consider as cardinal to development the person’s active participation in the process. Also, the biological model is not a straightforward genetic one because I consider the concept of epigenesis. Also, the environment is not considered apart from the developing person because I work from a relational metaframe.

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