In this essay we argue that the over-reliance on age effects in the field of developmental psychology belies attention to actual development, obscuring attention to actual developmental processes. We use examples from diverse content areas in developmental psychology, such as narrative and autobiographical memory, personality trait development, Piagetian conservation tasks, pubertal timing, and Dynamic Systems Theory to build this argument. We conclude by arguing that focusing on individual differences in development, and cultural and historical context as major mechanisms of developmental processes will provide a fuller and richer understanding of the complexity of human development.

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没有年龄差异？没问题

在本文中，我们认为发展心理学领域过度依赖年龄效应掩盖了对实际发展的关注，掩盖了对实际发展过程的关注。我们使用来自发展心理学不同内容领域的例子，例如叙事和自传记忆、人格特质发展、皮亚杰特保护任务、青春期时机和动态系统理论来构建这一论点。我们最后认为，关注发展中的个体差异以及文化和历史背景作为发展过程的主要机制，将提供对人类发展复杂性的更全面和更丰富的理解。