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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Sociocultural Psychology

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  • Werner Greve advocates for an abstract, integrative developmental theory.
  • Evolutionary psychology offers concepts for adaptation within this framework.
  • Further qualification of change and information processing are needed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a complementary perspective to Greve's theory.
  • To integrate concepts of change, information, ruptures, and sense-making.
  • To provide a meta-theoretical frame for integrative developmental psychology.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing theories, including evolutionary and cultural psychology.
  • Analysis of ruptures and sense-making as core developmental processes.
  • Examination of Gordon Allport's work and current sociocultural psychology research.

Main Results:

  • Open dynamic approaches provide a suitable meta-theoretical frame.
  • Cultural approaches inherently account for meaning-making.
  • Integrative propositions can explain stability and change in development.

Conclusions:

  • An integrative developmental psychology can be achieved by accounting for information and meaning-making.
  • Historical and current examples demonstrate the viability of this proposition.
  • This approach offers theoretical and heuristic value for understanding development.