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Review
. 2016 Sep;50(3):392-400.
doi: 10.1007/s12124-016-9355-5.

A Developmental and Process Approach to "Choice Categories": Imagination and "Tacit Knowledge"

Maria C D P Lyra  1
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A Developmental and Process Approach to "Choice Categories": Imagination and "Tacit Knowledge"

Maria C D P Lyra. Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2016 Sep.

Abstract

A developmental process approach is proposed in order to contribute to reflect upon "choice categories" as the phenomena of human individuation (Mammen and Mironenko, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 49:681-713, 2015; Mammen, 2016). Firstly we contrapose this perspective to the results referred by Krøjgaard (Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 50(2), 264-276, 2016) regarding infant development. Subsequently, we discuss the role of imagination and the role of Polanyi's "tacit knowledge" as contributing to complement the concept of "choice categories". By this way we aim to highlight the heuristic value of focusing on the quality of the dynamics that guide developmental changes and its embeddedness in sociocultural milieu.

Keywords: Imagination; Infancy; Knowledge; Process of development; “Choice and sense categories”; “Tacit knowledge”.

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