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development
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continuity and change in human life involving growth and decline
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cross-sectional design
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research where people are assessed on a psychological variable at one point and time
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cohort effects
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studying people that were born within same time period (knowledge of computers 50 yr olds vs. 40)
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nature
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an individual's biological inheritance
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nurture
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individual's biological and social experiences
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cognition in late adulthood
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decline in speed of processing
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socioemotional process
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changes in individual's relationships with others, emotions, and personality
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physical process
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change in biological nature
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cognitive process
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changes in thought, intelligence, and language
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temperament (in childhood)
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behavior style and characteristic ways of learning (easy, difficult, difficult to warm up to)
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attachment
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close emotional bond between infant and caregiver
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harry harlow
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importance of warm contact (children)
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androgens
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main class of male sex hormones, male sex organs start to differentiate from female sex organs.
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gender schema
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mental framework for understanding what it means to be male or female in one's culture
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gender similarities hypothesis
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hyde's proposition that men and women are much more similar than they are different
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