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| The pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through the life span. |
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| Views development as lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional,plastic,multidisciplinary, and contextual. |
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| growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss |
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| a government course of action designed to promote the welfare of its citizens |
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| children who grow up in poverty represents a special concern |
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| a recent study also revealed that the more children spent living in poverty, the more their physiological indices of stress were elevated |
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| the time from conceptionto birth |
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| most likely retirement age |
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| approximately 60-79 yrs of age |
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| chronological,biological, psychological, and social |
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| the number of years that elspsed since birth |
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| an individual adaptive capacities compared with those of other individuals of the same chronological age |
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| refers to social roles and expections related to a persons age |
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| refers to an organisms biological inheritance |
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| claim that enviornment experiences are more important |
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| information-processing theory |
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| emphasizes that individuals manipulate information,monitor it, and strategize about it |
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| Ethological Theory (nature) |
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| stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterlized by critical or ssensitive periods |
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| Ecological Theory(nurture) |
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| stresses biological factors, ecological theory emphasizes environmental factors |
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| Electric theoretical orientation |
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| does not follow any one theoretical approach but rather selects from each theory whatever is considered its best feature |
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| a in-depth look at a single individual |
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| descriptive , correlational, and experimental |
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| descriptive research(describe) |
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| aims to observe and record behavior |
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| the goal is to describe the strenth of the (relationship) between two or more events or characteristics |
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| a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied |
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| pleura(membrane surrounding lungs) |
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| surgical puncture to remove fluid |
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| falling, dropping,prolapse |
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| opening to form a mouth(stoma) |
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| hereditary disease of blood clotting |
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