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| Scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human life span |
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| Concept of human development as a lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically |
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| Growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health |
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| Pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity |
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| Pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships |
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| A concept or practice that may appear natural and obvious to those who accept it, but that in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society |
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| Differences in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes |
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| Inborn traits or characteristics inherited from the biological parents |
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| Totality of nonhereditary, or experiential influences on development |
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| Unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes |
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| Two-generational kinship, economic, and household unit consisting of one or two parents and their biological children, adopted children, or stepchildren |
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| Multigenerational kinship network of parents, children, and other relatives, sometimes living together in an extended-family household |
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| Combination of economic and social factors describing an individual or family, including income, education, and occupation |
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| Conditions that increase the likelihood of a negative developmental outcome |
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| A society's or group's total way of life, including customs, traditions, beliefs, values, language, and physical products- all learned behavior, passed on from parents to children |
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| A group united by ancestry, race, religion, language, and/or national origins, which contribute to a sense of shared identity |
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| Overgeneralization about an ethnic or cultural group that obscures differences within the group |
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| Characteristic of an event that occurs in a similar way for most people in a group |
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| A group of people born at about the same time |
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| A group of people strongly influenced by a major historical event during their formative period |
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| Characteristic of an unusual event that happens to a particular person or a typical event that happens at an unusual time of life |
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| Instinctive form of learning in which, during a critical period in early development, a young animal forms an attachment to the first moving object it sees, usually the mother |
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| Specific time when a given event or its absence has a specific impact on development |
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| Range of modifiability of performance |
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| Times in development when a person is particularly open to certain kinds of experience |
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| Balte's life-span developmental approach |
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| Development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, involves changing resource allocations, shows plasticity, influenced by the historical and cultural context, relative influence of biology, and culture shift over the life span |
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