Common Territories in Comparative and Developmental Psychology: Quest for Shared Means and Meaning in Behavioral Investigations

Johnson-Pynn, Julie S.; Fragaszy, Dorothy M.; Cummins-Sebree, Sarah

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“…Hence the growing difference between humans and other great apes across the human lifespan might build on an early head start based on superior social cognitive skills that allow privileged access to information provided by others. Thus, Comparative Psychology offers a methodological approach to take a more differentiated, more critical and historical perspective on the species-typical aspects of human development (Johnson-Pynn et al, 2003).…”

Section: What Cognitive Traits Are Uniquely Human?mentioning

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The Importance of Comparative Psychology for Developmental Science

Liebal

Haun

2012

International Journal of Developmental Science

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The aim of this essay is to elucidate the relevance of cross-species comparisons for the investigation of human behavior and its development. The focus is on the comparison of human children and another group of primates, the non-human great apes, with special attention to their cognitive skills. Integrating a comparative and developmental perspective, we argue, can provide additional answers to central and elusive questions about human behavior in general and its development in particular: What are the heritable predispositions of the human mind? What cognitive traits are uniquely human? In this sense, Developmental Science would benefit from results of Comparative Psychology.

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Section: What Cognitive Traits Are Uniquely Human?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Comparative Psychology for Developmental Science

Liebal

Haun

2012

International Journal of Developmental Science

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Neurobehavioural integrity of chimpanzee newborns: comparisons across groups and across species reveal gene–environment interaction effects

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Brent²,

Lester

et al. 2011

Infant and Child Development

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The aims of this article are to describe the neurobehavioral integrity of chimpanzee newborns, to investigate how early experiences affect the neurobehavioral organization of chimpanzees, and to explore species differences by comparing chimpanzee newborns to a group of typically developing human newborns. Neurobehavioral integrity related to orientation, motor performance, arousal, and state regulation of 55 chimpanzee (raised in four different settings) and 42 human newborns was measured with the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) a semi-structured 25-minute interactive assessment. Thirty-eight chimpanzees were tested every other day from birth, and analyses revealed significant developmental changes in 19 of 27 NBAS scores. The cross-group and cross-species comparisons were conducted at 2 and 30 days of age. Among the 4 chimpanzee groups, significant differences were found in 23 of 24 NBAS scores. Surprisingly, the cross-species comparisons revealed that the human group was distinct in only 1 of 25 NBAS scores (the human group had significantly less muscle tone than all the chimpanzee groups). The human group was indistinguishable from at least one of the chimpanzee groups in the remaining 24 of 25 NBAS scores. The results of this study support the conclusion that the interplay between genes and environment, rather than genes alone or environment alone, accounts for phenotypic expressions of newborn neurobehavioral integrity in hominids.

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Theories of Attachment: The Long and Winding Road to an Integrative Developmental Science

Lickliter

2008

Integr. psych. behav.

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Although traditional accounts of attachment theory attempted to partition the organism's attachment and separation responses into those that were instinctive and those that were the result of the developmental environment, recent findings from epigenetics are indicating that no such partitioning is possible, even in principle. Rather than assuming the expression of a given behavioral trait is based on some set of instincts (as Bowlby and many of his colleagues did for attachment and separation responses), behavioral development is now seen as a self-organizing, probabilistic process in which pattern and order emerge and change as a result of ongoing co-actions among developmentally relevant components both internal (e.g., genes, hormones, neural networks) and external (e.g., temperature, diet, social interaction) to the organism. Exploring the specific prenatal and postnatal features of the mother-infant interaction system is providing a new appreciation of the complexity of the origins and maintenance of early attachment and its long-term consequences.

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Common Territories in Comparative and Developmental Psychology: Quest for Shared Means and Meaning in Behavioral Investigations

Cited by 5 publications

References 134 publications

The Importance of Comparative Psychology for Developmental Science

The Importance of Comparative Psychology for Developmental Science

Neurobehavioural integrity of chimpanzee newborns: comparisons across groups and across species reveal gene–environment interaction effects

Theories of Attachment: The Long and Winding Road to an Integrative Developmental Science

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