DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
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Environment
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Genetics
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Heredity
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Behaviorists believe that heredity is the primary influence on a newborn’s development.
Detailed explanation-2: -nurture. A general term for all the environmental influences that affect development after an individual is conceived. critical period. A time when a particular type of developmental growth (in body or behavior) must happen if it is ever going to happen. sensitive period.
Detailed explanation-3: -3 Challenges to Human Development: Potential, Poverty, Productivity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The traditional approach emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood, and decline in late old age. The life-span approach emphasizes developmental change during adulthood as well as childhood.
Detailed explanation-5: -When used in relation to human development, the word “domain” refers to specific aspects of growth and change. The major domains of development are physical, cognitive, language, and social-emotional. Children often experience a significant and obvious change in one domain at a time.