1. Which description best captures human development across the life course?
2. What is the primary definition of development in the context of human growth?
3. Which example correctly matches a developmental process with what it involves?
What is development in human life?
A pattern of progressive, orderly, and predictable changes from conception onward.
Development: key processes?
Biological, cognitive, socio-emotional
What do biological processes in development involve?
Inherited physical development.
Life-span perspective principle?
Development is lifelong, multidirectional, plastic
What does the life-span perspective treat development as?
Development as lifelong, from conception to old age with dynamic gains and losses.
Growth vs. Maturation?
Growth: size increase; Maturation: orderly, genetic changes
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