HISTORY AND NATURE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

The main intention of this document is to outstand a view of the Evolutive Psychology as an area ofspecific knowledge the approaches the course of changes and progress the construction of diversepsychological process thought life. The text identifies the classical historical antecedents of the currentEvolutive Psychology, its great landmarks and discusses some views about “evolution” and proposesa theoretical reflection from the disciplinary intersection perspective.Proposes that Evolutive Psychology shows ruptures and transformations in terms of a) Overcomingthe image of the child as an adult in miniature. b) Children, an organism that gets adapted and evolves.c) The evolution of the child, the adolescent and the adult are different subjects d) The subject as logicalthinker and scientific natural placed in the intersubjectivity e) Identification and characterization ofunsuspected neonative competitions analogies homologies and improving rationality f) Study of theinevitable transitions for aging and death. Discuses some current debates in the context of a conceptionof evolution that shows transformations, ruptures, regressions and reorganizations with progressionsthat do not establish lineal connections between the initial points with the final ones.