ELED 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Developmental Science
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Blended families: parents, children, and stepchildren merged into families through remarriages. Child development: the study of human growth and change in the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and personality realms from conception through adolescence-about to age 20. Coactions: joint actions of nature and nurture, or heredity and environment, working together in interactions to produce growth and development. Cognitive development: changes in problem solving, memory, language reasoning and other aspects of thinking. Cohort: a group of people who share the same historical context because they were born during the same time period. Context: the total setting or situation that surrounds and interacts with a person or event. Continuous development: a gradual continuing process of increase (or decrease) in abilities, knowledge, skills, strength or other aspects of physical cognitive, and social development . Critical periods: a time when certain abilities, such as language, must develop. If those opportunities are missed the abilities may never develop.
