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Physical development

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Involves changes in the body and it’s various systems

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Emotional development

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Involves changes in an individual’s feelings and how these feelings are expressed, interpreted and dealt with

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Social development

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Involves changes in an individual’s relationships with other people and their skill in interacting

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Cognitive development

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Involves changes in an individual’s mental abilities. Such as processing information, learning

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Heredity

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Involves the transmission of characteristics from biological parents to their offspring via genes at the time of conception

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Environmental factors

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All the experiences, objects and events to which we are exposed throughout our entire lifetimes

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Continuous development

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Involves gradual and ongoing changes

Without sudden shifts

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Discontinuous development

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Distinct and separate stages

Seems to appear suddenly

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Maturation

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A process which is automatic and internally programmed

Our brain must be maturationally ready in order to speak fluently

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Longitudinal study

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Long term investigation over an extended period of time

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Cross sectional study

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Selects two or more groups of participants of different ages over a short period of time

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Cohort Sequential method

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Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional studies. And they overlap each other in age

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Developmental change

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A relatively permanent or lasting change

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Twin studies

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Monozygotic

Dizygotic

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Twin study developmental with psychologists

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Psychologists have a better understanding on which characteristics are more likes to influence but environmental factors and which is caused my heredity

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Nature vs nurture

Heredity vs environment

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Genes vs various life experiences. It is not certain which is mainly affecting us

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The 4 areas of lifespan development

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Physical
Emotional
Social
Cognitive