O uso da noção de processo em psicologia do desenvolvimento: algumas considerações

Abstract

This paper intends to discuss some problems concerning me use of the notion of process in developmental psychology. After identifying the various meanings of process in different philosophical sistems and on everyday language, the author asks how different notions of process could be on the basis of different methodological frameworks in developmental psychology, generating problems like the persistence of conceptual confusion. Since those conceptual problems persist, the paper starts with a reference to the thinking of modern philosophers of language (Wittgenstein, Austin, Byte), and goes on to present the work of psychologists like Harzem (1986) and Oliveira-Castrol (1990), who intend to amplify the correspondence between language and phenomena.