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what are the five characteristics of development ✔✔life long, multidirectional, contexual,
multidisciplinary, multidimensional


what does it mean when development is lifelong? ✔✔Early adulthood is not the endpoint of
development; no age period dominates development


Development is multidimensional ✔✔Has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions


development is multidirectional ✔✔Some dimensions expand and others shrink


Development is plastic ✔✔The capacity for change


what does it mean when development is multidisciplinary ✔✔Various areas of study have an
interest in the field of development through the life span


development is contextual ✔✔All development occurs within a context, or setting (social, cultural,
and historic factors)


What is development by nature? ✔✔refers to an organism's biological inheritance


what is development by nurture? ✔✔its environmental experiences


example of development by nature ✔✔beliefs that genetics is the cause. Personality learned by
parents, homosexuality is genetic or out of someones control, health risks passed on from parent
to child

, example of development by nurture ✔✔Obestiy is caused by poor eating habits, homosexuality is
a choice, education is learned by environmental aspects and not genetics


what is development by continuity? ✔✔change is gradual


What is development by discontinuity? ✔✔change is in distinct stages


example of development by discontinuity ✔✔an insect growing through distinct stages-
caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly


example of development by continuity ✔✔a child gradually learning to walk - crawl, stand, and
then walk


what is development by stability? ✔✔we become older renditions of our early experience


what is development by change? ✔✔we develop into someone different from who we were at an
earlier point


example of development by stability ✔✔being shy due to hereditary or experiences at a young age


example of development by change ✔✔personalities are modified by interactions among family
and experiences


what are the Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Theories ? ✔✔Freud and Erikson theory


what are the cognitive theories? ✔✔Piaget, Vygotsky, and information processing


what are the Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theory ✔✔Skinners Operant conditioning and
Banduras Social cognitive model

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