{"id":7691,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_-or_ontogenetic-_time\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:36","slug":"developmental_-or_ontogenetic-_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_-or_ontogenetic-_time\/","title":{"rendered":"Developmental (or ontogenetic) time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time scale long enough for developmental change to take place. &nbsp;For prehension, the requisite time would be weeks or months while for language it would be at least months and probably years. &nbsp;This time scale is contrasted with that for real time, the seconds or fractions of seconds during which immediate behavior is expressed. &nbsp;A major concern in dynamical systems approaches to development is how these two time scales relate in the emergence of new ontogenetic abilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"developmental_emergence\">Developmental emergence<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_hypothesis\">Developmental hypothesis<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_research\">Developmental research<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamical_systems_approaches\">Dynamical systems approaches<\/a>, Dynamic systems theory (development and evolution) Maturation versus learning debate, <a href=\"microgenetic_method\">Microgenetic method<\/a>, <a href=\"phylogenetic_-or_geological-_time\">Phylogenetic (or geological) time<\/a>, <a href=\"time-lag_design\">Time-lag design<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time scale long enough for developmental change to take place. &nbsp;For prehension, the requisite time would be weeks or months while for language it would be at least months and probably years. &nbsp;This time scale is contrasted with that for real time, the seconds or fractions of seconds during which immediate behavior is expressed. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_-or_ontogenetic-_time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Developmental (or ontogenetic) time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}