Chapter 1: Experience Human
Development, 13th Edition by Diane
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human development - ✔✔Scientific study of processes of change and stability
throughout the human life span.
life-span development - ✔✔Concept of human development as a lifelong process,
which can be studied scientifically.
physical development - ✔✔Growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in
sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.
cognitive developmen - ✔✔Pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning,
attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
psychosocial development - ✔✔Pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social
relationships.
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, social construction - ✔✔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.
eight generally accepted periods of human development - ✔✔Prenatal Period
(conception to birth)
Infancy and Toddlerhood (birth to age 3)
Early Child hood (ages 3 to 6)
Middle Childhood (ages 6 to 11)
Adolescence (ages 11 to about 20)
Emerging and Young Adulthood (ages 20 to 40)
Middle Adulthood (ages 40 to 65)
Late Adulthood (age 65 and over)
individual differences - ✔✔Differences in characteristics, influences, or developmental
outcomes.
heredity - ✔✔Inborn traits or characteristics inherited from the biological parents.
environment - ✔✔Totality of nonhereditary, or experiential, influences on development.
maturation - ✔✔Unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes.
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Development, 13th Edition by Diane
Papalia Exam Questions and Answers
100% Pass
human development - ✔✔Scientific study of processes of change and stability
throughout the human life span.
life-span development - ✔✔Concept of human development as a lifelong process,
which can be studied scientifically.
physical development - ✔✔Growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in
sensory capacities, motor skills, and health.
cognitive developmen - ✔✔Pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning,
attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
psychosocial development - ✔✔Pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social
relationships.
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, social construction - ✔✔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.
eight generally accepted periods of human development - ✔✔Prenatal Period
(conception to birth)
Infancy and Toddlerhood (birth to age 3)
Early Child hood (ages 3 to 6)
Middle Childhood (ages 6 to 11)
Adolescence (ages 11 to about 20)
Emerging and Young Adulthood (ages 20 to 40)
Middle Adulthood (ages 40 to 65)
Late Adulthood (age 65 and over)
individual differences - ✔✔Differences in characteristics, influences, or developmental
outcomes.
heredity - ✔✔Inborn traits or characteristics inherited from the biological parents.
environment - ✔✔Totality of nonhereditary, or experiential, influences on development.
maturation - ✔✔Unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes.
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