Developmentally Instigative Person Model

Developmentally Instigative Person Model. Developmentally instigative person characteristics consist of two features, personal stimulus qualities and developmentally structuring attributes, neither of which have found extensive articulation in the special education literature. These two features are explicitly distinguished from purely physical factors, such as bodily characteristics (e.g., size), forms of organic injury (e.g., congenital anomalies or physical disabilities), and physical characteristics (i.e., age, sex, and race). In fact, Bronfenbrenner (1992) argued that the three physical characteristics should be distinguished in every study because of their powerful ability to influence the processes of development.

Personal stimulus