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Human Development
Ch. 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/29/2011

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