As a theory of socioemotional development, attachment theory has implications and practical applications in social policy, decisions about the care and welfare of children and mental health.
In fact, Vygotsky (1986) maintains that SCT is regarded as a theory of human cognitive development and higher mental functions.
For the past few years, "Come for the tool, stay for the network" has been in vogue as a theory of consumer startup product development.
For there is no such thing as a theory of mind and, consequently, imprinted genes did not evolve for their contribution to the development of a theory of mind.
Some here applaud his support for subsidies to private companies; others, though, question what they see as a trickle-down theory of development, pointing skeptically to decisions like those of the private Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund to make a $2 million equity investment in a new luxury hotel, the Royal Oasis.
The wider point is that, although land titling is certainly a good thing, it does not provide a single theory of development, as many Sotistas have in the past implied.
In keeping with one of our previous studies [ 12], cognitive development as indexed by a theory-of-mind test accounted for a unique proportion of the variance in children's interpretation and internal attributions of anxiety-related physical symptoms.
Warnock, for example, apparently conceiving of Stevenson's Ethics and Language simply as a development of a theory of moral language, writes that "it is as if Stevenson had become over self-conscious about methodology and there is a good deal of reflexive commenting upon his own procedures, which add little or nothing to the actual ethical theory" (Warnock 1978, p. 66).
As a transition model of development, activity theory was used to examine how these developmental processes were structured.
This past week, the New York Times heralded a new theory of brain development as providing "psychiatry with perhaps its grandest working theory since Freud".
