{"id":7704,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_function\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:44","slug":"developmental_function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_function\/","title":{"rendered":"Developmental function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A term applied, originally by Joachim Wohlwill (1928-1987), to the form or mode of the relationship between the chronological age of an individual and the changes occurring in that person on some specified dimension of behavior. &nbsp;By &#8216;form or mode&#8217; is meant either qualitative change (e.g., in terms of a sequence of stages) or quantitative change (e.g., in terms of an exponential function). &nbsp;Sometimes referred to as a developmental trajectory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"behavior_variable\">Behavior variable<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_acceleration\">Developmental acceleration<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_trajectories\">Developmental trajectories<\/a>, <a href=\"exponential\">Exponential<\/a>, <a href=\"linear_growth_model\">Linear growth model<\/a>, Logistic growth model, <a href=\"quantitative_and_qualitative_change\">Quantitative and qualitative change<\/a>, <a href=\"trend\">Trend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term applied, originally by Joachim Wohlwill (1928-1987), to the form or mode of the relationship between the chronological age of an individual and the changes occurring in that person on some specified dimension of behavior. &nbsp;By &#8216;form or mode&#8217; is meant either qualitative change (e.g., in terms of a sequence of stages) or quantitative &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/developmental_function\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Developmental function&#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-7704","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\/7704","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=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}