DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
ADULTHOOD PHYSICAL COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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conservation stage
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preoperational stage
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attachment period
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critical period
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assimilation step
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Detailed explanation-1: -The answer is b. Sensitive periods are periods where “certain events” usually happen in development.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is the critical period? Also known as the sensitive period, the critical period is a time during early postnatal life when the development and maturation of functional properties of the brain, its ‘plasticity’, is strongly dependent on experience or environmental influences.
Detailed explanation-3: -a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards.
Detailed explanation-4: -Children’s brains develop in spurts called critical periods. The first occurs around age 2, with a second one occurring during adolescence. At the start of these periods, the number of connections (synapses) between brain cells (neurons) doubles. Two-year-olds have twice as many synapses as adults.