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Child development
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an area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change from conception though adolescence
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Developmental science
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includes all changes we experience throughout the lifetime
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Theory
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an orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior
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Continuous
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a process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with
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Discontinuous
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a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times
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Stages
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qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development
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Context
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unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change
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