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Developmental Psychology
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Is the Psychology of growth, change, and consistency from conception to death.
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Nature-Nuture issue
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Nature refers to the contibution of our heredity, whereas nurture refers to the role of our enviornment.
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Twin Study
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Seperating the effects of nature and nurture by which investigators may compare identical twins to fraternal twins or compare twins separated early in life and raised in different environments.
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Adoption Studies
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A method of separating the effect of nature and nurture, by which investigators compare characteristics of adopted children with those of individuals in their biological and adoptive families.
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Innate ability
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Capability of an infant that is inborn or biologically based.
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Prenatal Period
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The developmental period before birth
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Zygote
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Fertilized egg
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Embryo
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In humans, the name for the first eight weeks of the developing organism.
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Fetus
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In humans, the term for the developing organism between the embryonic stage and birth
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The neonatal period
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The first month after birth.
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