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Child Development
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A field of study devoted to understanding all aspects of human constancy and change from conception through adolescence.
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Developmental Science
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An interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of all changes we experience throughout the lifespan.
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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 Development
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A view that regards development as a cumulative process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with.
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Discontinuous Development
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A view of development as a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times.
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Stage
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A qualitative change in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterizes a specific period of development.
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Contexts
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Unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in markedly different paths of change.
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Nature vs. Nurture Controversy
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Debate among theorists about whether genetic or environmental factors are more important in development.
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