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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
developmental
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
▪ These developmental changes in perspective and technique were deliberate.
▪ And, second, what are the processes by which developmental change occurs?
disorder
▪ Take reading disability, or many other developmental disorders.
level
▪ The five classes are of mixed ability and each has up to eight children of similar age and/or developmental level.
▪ It appeared that, like other self-absorbed children, Robbie had difficulties at a number of developmental levels.
▪ On detailed assessment of her developmental level and language skills, Maria was identified as showing a marked developmental delay.
▪ Children experience trauma differently according to developmental level.
▪ As their expectations of her ability began to match her developmental level they stopped being so irritable and anxious with her.
▪ Soon, he will learn to be more flexible and will be relating to you at whatever developmental level he has reached.
▪ Gaining obedience from children will partly depend on their developmental level and whether they understand and can carry out what is expected.
▪ The same ranging of, or variability in, Piagetian developmental levels is found at any chronological age group.
model
▪ The state is given an even greater role than in the developmental model in creating conditions for justice and equality.
▪ The structural explanation of social problems is pursued more thoroughly than in a developmental model.
problem
▪ A child may, for instance, be born with serious handicaps or developmental problems requiring extended periods of care.
▪ The babies would have mental and physical abnormalities and developmental problems.
▪ The evidence of developmental problems arising from lower levels of caffeine consumption is less clear.
process
▪ It should be clearly linked to the developmental process.
▪ Winnicott, in his work with psychotics, became interested in the early developmental processes that facilitate the emergence of personhood.
▪ More important, the modern approach can lead to explanations at the molecular level thus linking gene action to developmental process.
▪ Education is part of the developmental process in which families are engaged from the date of conception of a child.
▪ Arthur Marwick Understanding the past is a developmental process.
▪ Does the idea of homology apply only to morphological patterns, he asks, or can it be applied to developmental processes?
▪ But that should not make anybody complacent about the developmental processes.
▪ Such suffering is a temporary stage in a developmental process.
psychologist
▪ The findings should be of interest to teachers, software designers and developmental psychologists.
▪ These two questions represent the focus of a considerable amount of research by developmental psychologists over the last 30 years.
▪ Furthermore, developmental psychologists found evidence that self-recognition correlates with empathy.
▪ Of course, we're developmental psychologists.
psychology
▪ It aims at amplifying the bare details of physical development and putting these into their context of emotional development and developmental psychology.
▪ He became a student of developmental psychology and reading theory.
role
▪ An overall conclusion on the developmental role is not too difficult to discern amongst the different assessments.
▪ All the authorities acknowledged that the most desirable situation would have been a well established developmental role complemented by routine casework services.
▪ Strong pressures not withstanding, the social workers undertook a substantial developmental role.
▪ A third version of the developmental role may also be distinguished.
▪ In reality, of course, the 3 versions of the developmental role are blurred.
sequence
▪ The test claims that the sounds are presented in a developmental sequence, although no data is presented to support this.
▪ There is a course to intellectual development, with reliable milestones and endpoints in the developmental sequence.
▪ He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence.
stage
▪ Endoderm is not, however, representative of small intestine of later developmental stages.
▪ Currently, injectable forms of disulfiram are in the developmental stage.
▪ The transgenic mouse lines also provide a source for future studies on early developmental stages of the immune system.
▪ Each of the sections traces a developmental stage in a cross-generational sequence.
▪ The appropriate percentage of oxygen in the gas phase at different developmental stages is shown in Figure 6.
▪ These conclusions must be taken with caution because food composition values for vitamin B6 are still in the developmental stage. 10.
▪ Blocking any one of these developmental stages stops the whole process.
▪ I was more tolerant of her developmental stages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Currently, injectable forms of disulfiram are in the developmental stage.
▪ Furthermore, developmental psychologists found evidence that self-recognition correlates with empathy.
▪ It was very much the sort of developmental pedagogy that composition scholars and learning theorists prescribe for remedial students.
▪ Or, they could have their developmental pathway specified before they begin migrating and then would migrate to the correct sites.
▪ Some developmental processes are like sculpting in clay.
▪ The latter is a developmental vocabulary primarily used with deaf children with learning difficulties.
▪ The research and developmental work on which this advance depends is well financed and comprehensive.
▪ Whole days or whole summers may be filled with this mutuality; it can even dominate an entire developmental stage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Developmental

Developmental \De*vel`op*men"tal\, a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
--Carpenter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
developmental

1830, from development + -al (1). Developmentalist (1862) was a word for "follower of the theory of evolution."

Wiktionary
developmental

a. Related to development. n. A trainee flight controller.

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WordNet
developmental

adj. of or relating to or constituting development; "developmental psychology"

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Usage examples of "developmental".

These factors, however unconsciously perceived by the child, allect important developmental decisions.

He is in fact denigrating an entire series of developmental stages that represented extraordinary advances in their own ways, and were no more a perversion of spiritual development than an acorn is a perversion of an oak.

As with Peptide 7, it was decided that the developmental name of Hexin W would he its product name also.

Vision-logic gives way to direct vision, and the developmental view is supplemented with a vibratory view, where vibration is used to convey not so much a physicalistic nature as a quality of intensity of awareness.

Great Chain, and with Schelling and Hegel we see the full-blown conception of a process or developmental philosophy applied to literally all aspects and all spheres of existence.

That law establishes an Atomic Energy Commission of five members which is empowered to conduct through its own facilities, or by contracts with, or loans to private persons, research and developmental activity relating to nuclear processes, the theory and production of atomic energy and the utilization of fissionable and radioactive materials for medical, industrial and other purposes.

They can be experienced only by a transrational contemplative development, whose stages unfold in the same manner as any other developmental stages, and whose experiences are every bit as real as any others.

I suppose it was an awkward but necessary stage in paleographic developmental, destined for an obscure footnote of history now that its questionable usefulness has ended.

The psychodynamics of such a narcissist are not clear, nor are his developmental roots.

This principle also holds for all types of human developmental sequences.

And already we can start to see how a normal developmental sequence of increasing wholes might pathologically degenerate into a system of oppression and repression.

Teach these what-if scenarios to preop or conop individuals, and no matter how much they parrot the words, they do not possess the developmental signified and thus they have no real idea of the actual referent.

Shared lifeworlds mean a shared set not just of structural signifiers but also of developmental signifieds.

They are armchair contemplatives, so to speak, and they are trying to make sweeping pronouncements about spiritual referents without possessing the corresponding developmental signified.

These are some of the many developmental and evolutionary themes of this volume.