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| continuity–discontinuity issue |
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| Focuses on the extent to which development involves gradual, cumulative change or distinct stages. |
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| A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are compared at one time. |
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| Pattern of change that begins at conception and continues throughout the life span. Most development involves growth, although it also includes decline brought on by aging which ends in death. |
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| Study of behavior as it is strongly influenced by biology, tied to evolution, and characterized by critical or sensitive periods. |
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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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| The perspective that development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual; it involves growth, maintenance, and regulation. |
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| A research strategy in which the same individuals are studied over a period of time, usually several years or more. |
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| Refers to the debate about whether development is primarily influenced by what we are born with or what we experience in our environment as we grow. |
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| Describes development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion. |
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| Emphasizes behavior, environment, and cognition as the key factors in development. |
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