Abstract
Like anyone who proposes to predict the future, with or without a crystal ball, I plan to use my knowledge of the past and present and, with minimal slight of hand, create the basis for a conceptualization of the future. My plan in the present contribution is to explicate some of my presuppositions about developmental psychology in general and cognitive development in particular. Then I will present a broad theoretical framework within which I feel comfortable in attacking the problems of the present and future. I shall conclude with some illustrations of approaches to empirical examinations of theoretical issues which I think point the way to the types of research we will find most fruitful in achieving the goals of the future paradigm of developmental psychology.
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Palermo, D.S. (1983). Looking to the Future: Theory and Research in Language and Cognitive Development. In: Seiler, T.B., Wannenmacher, W. (eds) Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69000-6_17
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