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On July 11,1987, the menace of our modern busy world — a heart attack — claimed the life of Joachim Wohlwill. Wohlwill’s contribution to this volume remains his ‘scientific testament’ — for his colleagues and disciples to study, understand, and to advance further. Wohlwill’s contribution to the methodology of developmental psychology ranges over 25 years, from his earlier work on the uses of scaling (Wohlwill, 1963a) and empirical extensions of Piagetian research (Wohlwill, 1963b), to the publication of his major monograph The study of be- havioral development (Wohlwill, 1973), and beyond — ending with his contribution to this volume. Wohlwill’s concerns about methodology that would fit the needs of developmental research advanced with great continuity over these decades. He understood the need for reorganization of the scientific method for the purposes of developmental psychology. His contribution to the present volume provides multiple lines of thought for further development of his ideas.
The canons of the scientific method, as they have been worked out for held of psychololgy at large, require modificalion when applied to developmental problems (Wohlwill, 1973, p. 17).
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Valsiner, J. (1991). Theories and Methods in the Service of Data Construction in Developmental Psychology. In: Van Geert, P., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3842-4_7
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