Abstract
Developmental science seeks to describe, explain, and optimize intra-individual change and interindividual differences in intraindividual change across the life span. Developmental scientists may focus on either the role of the individual and/or the context in seeking to understand particular instantiations of individual⬄context exchanges. Developmental regulations are the fundamental feature of human life; indeed all life exists through bidirectional exchanges with the physical and/or social context. Contemporary developmental science is marked by such scholarship within and across several substantive and methodological areas framing the field. Relative plasticity characterizes the relations between organisms and contexts that, across time, create qualitative change in developmental processes within and across generations. The use of systems science methods in developmental science is a sample case of the opening of the field to innovations in methodology, perhaps especially those associated with other disciplines. Developmental science framed by the process-relational paradigm has a clear agenda involving such scholarship.
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