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One of the major preoccupations of our discipline is the study of mental development. Our thinking has been focused on several broad issues, namely, (1) the relative contributions of heredity and environment, (2) individual differences and the species-general developmental stages of mental development, and (3) consistency and change.
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McCall, R.B. (1983). A Conceptual Approach to Early Mental Development. In: Lewis, M. (eds) Origins of Intelligence. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0322-8_4
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