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Lifespan development
The study of changes and continuities from womb to tomb
Developmental science
A larger, interdisciplinary field that includes all changes we experience throughout the lifespan
Basic issues
Continuous or discontinuous development?
One course of development or many?
Roles of genetic and environmental factors?
Continuous theories
A process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with
-development is a quantitative process
Discontinuous theories
a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific timesa
Stages
qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development
Contexts
unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of change
Nature-nurture controversy
debate over the relative influence of genetic and environmental factors
A theories position on nature and nurture affects how it explains individual differences
Stability
heredity and early experiences are key to establishing a lifelong pattern of behaviour
Plasticity
development is open to change in response to influential experiences
Developmental systems
development as an ongoing process molded by a complex network of genetic/biological, psychological, and social influences
Chromosomes
store and transmit genetic information
DNA
substance of which genes and chromosomes are made
Gene
a segment of DNA located along the chromosomes
Genotype
an individuals unique genetic information
Phenotype
an individuals directly observable characteristics