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| a field of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the lifespan |
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| an orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior. |
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| a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with. |
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| a process in which news ways of understanding and responding to the world emerges at specific times. |
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| qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development. |
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| unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change. |
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| Nature-nuture controversy |
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| Are genetic or environmental factors more important? |
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| inborn biological givens-the hereditary information we receive from our parents at the moment of conception. |
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| the complex forces of the physical and social world that influence our biological makeup and psychological experiences before and after birth. |
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| that development is (1) lifelong, (2)multidimensional and multidirectional, (3) highly plastic, (4) affected by multiple interacting forces |
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