8/8/2019 Addyman, C; Dekker, T: (2010) The development of Developmental Psychology
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What can data-mining tools and techniques tell us about the history of
developmental psychology? Can a textual analysis of highly-cited abstracts
from PsychINFO reveal trends and themes?
Background
Caspar Addyman*,1,2 and Tessa Dekker 1
*Correspondence email [email protected]
1. Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD), Birkbeck,University of London, Malet Street, London,UK
2. Laboratoire d’Etudes sur l’Apprentissage et Développement
(LEAD), Pôle AAFE, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Correlated terms
Hierarchical cluster analysis
References
1. Ingo Feinerer (2010). tm: Text Mining Package. R package version 0.5-3.
2. Ingo Feinerer, Kurt Hornik, and David Meyer (2008). Text Mining Infrastr ucturein R. Journal of Statistical Software 25/5. URL:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v25/i05/.
3. Mark Hall, Eibe Frank, Geoffrey Holmes, Bernhard Pfahringer, Peter Reutemann, Ian H. Witten (2009); The WEKA Data Mining Software: An Update;
SIGKDD Explorations, Volume 11, Issue 1
The development of developmental psychology.A corpus analysis of highly cited abstracts from 1970 to 2010
Methods
1970’s
1980’s Extract & filter data from html using Python.
Using the R statistical computing language andtextual analysis packages tm [1,2] and RWeka [3]
PsychINFO 4 decades for 3 journals (approx 12,000 papers)
Child Development, Developmental Psychology,Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
12 most highly cited papers each year. 360 per decade.
2000’s
1990’s
Top 100 most frequent terms per decade
learning (-73)
female (-57)
sex (-42)
stimuli (-32)
preference (-29)
maternal (+101)
adolescents (+150)
environment (+159)
expressions (+189)
classification (+248)
reported (+83)
theories (+110)
gender (+137)
beliefs (+285)
adjustment (+287)
research (+56)
months (+79)
american (+92)
authors (+122)
yearolds (+182)
rate (-44)
boys (-38)
interaction (-36)
affect (-29)
response (-25)
family, memories, emotional
Identified, attributes
participants, indicated,condition,
activities, environmental
more freq.
new
more freq.
new
more freq.
less freq.
conditions (-38)
observed (-31)
patterns (-31)
discussed (-30)
increased (-27)
less freq.
less freq.
1990’s 2000’s 1980’s 1970’s
child
infant
mother
behavior
develop
1970’s
2000’s
new
Frequent phrases
Secure attachment, Em otional
regulation, Effortful control, Child
behavior, Child learning, Executivefunction, Phonological awareness,
Theory of Mind, Phonemic
awareness, Short-term memory
2000’s
Moral judgment, Individual
differences, Age change, Mother
father, Cognitive development,Sex differences, Age difference,
Social behavior
1970’s
Principle components analysis
behavior parent
mother girl
boy…
infantfamiliar visualdiscriminmonths-old…
infantstagedevelopmentmonths-old
evidence…
Experimentobserve
mother grader
result…
scaleaddition
stimuliindividual
reliable…
phonological
readtaskmemory
ability…
adultexperimentinfantsuggestprevious…
regulatechildemotionextermalcontrol…
childmathematicsachievementacademicyears-old…
executivebelief mathematicstask
theory…
1970’s
2000’s
