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Child Development
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the field that involves the scientific study of the patterns of growth, change, and stability that occur from conception through adolescence
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Physical Development
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Development involving the body's physical makeup, including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses and the need for food, drink, and sleep
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Cognitive Development
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Development involving the ways that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence a person's behavior
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Personality Development
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Development involving the ways that the enduring characteristics that differtiate one person from another change over the life span
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Social Development
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The way in which individuals' interactions with others and their social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life
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Cohort
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A group of people born at around the same time in the same place
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Continuous Change
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Gradual development in which achievements at one level build on those of previous levels
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Discontinuous Change
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Development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stages
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Critical Period
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A specific time during development when a particular event has its greatest consequences
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Plasticity
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The degree to which a developing behavior or physical structure is modifiable
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Sensitive Period
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A specific time when organisms are particularly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in their environment
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Maturation
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The process of the predetermined unfolding of genetic information
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