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Child Development
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an area of study devoted to understanding constancy and change from conception through adolescence.
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Developmental Science
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an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the changes we experience throughout the lifespan.
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Physical Domain of Development
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physical- changes in body size, proportions,, appearance, functioning of body systems, perceptual and motor capacities, physical health.
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Emotional and Social Domain of Development
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Changes in emotional communication, self-understanding, knowledge about other people, interpersonal skills, relationships, and moral reasoning.
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Cognitive Domain of Development
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Changes in intellectual abilities, including attention, memory, academic, and everyday knowledge, problem solving, imagination, creativity, and language
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What are Stages
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qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development
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Contexts
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unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that result in different paths of change
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Resilient Children
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children who have the ability to adapt effectively in the face of threats to development
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Who is John Locke
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British philosopher who brought about the first studies of behaviorism. Coined the Latin phrase-TABULA RASA-blank slate. Parents were responsible for molding children.
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Noble Savages
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children are naturally endowed with a sense of right and wrong and an innate plan for orderly, health and growth.
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Maturation
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a genetically determined, naturally unfolding course of growth.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Claimed children are noble savages with an innate moral compass. Adults needed to be receptive during each stage. Development was discontinuous, stagewise process, follows a single unified course mapped by nature
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Information Coding
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from the time information is presented to the senses at input until emerges as a behavioral response at output, information is coded, transformed, organized
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Social Policy
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any planned set of actions by groups, institutions, or government body directed at attaining a social goal
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Public Policy
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laws and government programs aimed at improving current conditions
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