ABSTRACT
The simulation strategy discussed in Chapter Nineteen is also part of the strategy for analytic-explanatory research used in comparative developmental psychology. Comparative developmental psychology involves the systematic and theory-guided analysis of developmental change in behavior as seen in various subpopulations of living organisms (Eckensberger, 1973; LeVine, 1970). Baltes and Goulet (1970), for example, distinguished among comparative-species, comparative-culture, and comparative-generation developmental psychology, a list that could be easily expanded.
