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The scientific study of age-related changes in behavior, thinking, emotion, and personaility. |
Human development |
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Average ages at which developmental milestones are reached |
Norms |
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Standarized test that compare an individual child's score to the average score of others her age |
Norm-referenced tests |
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The gradual unfolding of a gentelically programmed sequential patternof change |
Maturation |
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The current view of developmentalist that important changes occur throughout the entire human lifespan |
Lifespan perspective |
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Changes in the size shape and characteristics of the body. |
Physical domain |
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Changes in thinking memory, problem solving, and other intellectual skills. |
Cognative domain |
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Change in variables that are associated with the relationship of an individual to others |
Social domain |
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The debate about relative contributions of biological processes and experiential factors to development |
Nature vs Nurture |
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A change in amount |
Quantitative change |
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A change in kind or type |
Qualitative change |
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Qualitatively distinct periods of development |
Stages |
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Changes that are common to every member of a species |
Normative age-graded changes |
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A set of age norms defining a sequence of life experiences that is considered normal |
Social clock |
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Prejudcicial attitudes about older adults that characterizes them in negative ways |
Ageism |
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Normative history-graded changes |
Changes that occur in most members of a cohort as a result of factors at work during a specific, well-defined historical period |
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Normative changes |
Changes that result from unique unshared events. |
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