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The success of developmental psychology and its efforts to understand the development of thought in the first year of infancy In spite of their obvious impotence, newborns come to this world ready to collect the information they need to give sense of their new environment; their heritage which is determined at the time of conception has supply them with the already developed capacities of their own specie as well as a unique set of genes that transforms them into individuals. However to predict the course of life of an individual is not the aim of developmental psychology , but to understand the general rules of development, in this case the development of thought during the first year of life commonly characteristic to the human race. Soon we will see how explanations about this development differ. Although each of them has incremented our understanding of the mysterious process of development , none...

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