planful
adjEtymology From plan + -ful.
1
Having (many) plans.
2
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Intentional.
- Is an infant who delights in such repetitive actions as swatting a brightly colored mobile or making a toy duck quack engaging in planful or intentional behavior? Piaget said no: the secondary circular reaction is not a fully intentional response, because the interesting result it produces was discovered by chance and was not a purposeful goal the first time the action was performed.2013, David R. Shaffer, Katherine Kipp, Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence, page 207:
- Derived terms
- planfully, planfulness