[1] Human Development (11Th Ed.) By Papalia

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What is human development?

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Scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human life span.

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What is life-span development?

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Concept of human development as a lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically.

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What is physical development?

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Growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.

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What is cognitive development?

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Pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.

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What is psychosocial development?

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Pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships.

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What are individual differences?

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Differences in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes.

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What is heredity?

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Inborn traits or characteristics inherited from the biological parents.

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What is environment (in Human Development Textbook)?

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Totality of nonheridity, or experiential, influences on development.

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What is maturation?

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Unfolding matural sequence of physical and behavioral changes.

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What is nuclear family?

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Two-generational kinship, economic, and household unit consisting of one or two parents and their biological children, adopted children, or stepchildren.

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What is extended family?

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Multigenerational kinship network of parents, children, and other relatives, sometimes living together in an extended-family household.

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What is socioeconomic status (SES)?

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Combination of economic and social factors describing an individual or family, inluding income, education, and occupation.

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What are risk factors?

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Conditions that increase the likelihood of a negative developmental outcome.

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What is culture?

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A society's or group's total way of life, including customs, traditions, beliefs, values, language, and physical products--all learned behavior, passed on from parents to children.

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What is an ethnic group?

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A group united by ancestry, race, religion, language, and/or national origins, which contribute to a sense of shared identity.

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What is ethnic gloss?

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Overgeneralization about an ethnic or cultural grop that obscures differences within the group.

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What does normative mean?

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Characteristic of an event that occurs in a similar way for most people in a group.

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What is a cohort?

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A group of people born at about the same time.

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What is a historical generation?

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A group of people strongly influenced by a major historical event during their formative period.

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What does nonnormative mean?

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Characteristic of an unusal event that happens toa particular person or a typical event that happens at an unusual time of life.

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What is imprinting?

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Instinctive form of learning in whih, during a critical period in early development, a young animal forms an attacchment to the first moving object it sees, usually the mother.

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What is the critical period?

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Specific time when a given event or its absence has a specific impact on development.

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What is plasticity?

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Range of modifiability of performance. Refers, I believe, to aspects of development in all three domains.

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What are sensitive periods?

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Times in development when a person is particularly open to certain kinds of experiences.

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What is a social construction?

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A concept or practice that may appear natural and obvious to those who accept it, but that in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society.