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Human Growth & Dev
Ch 1-4
Question | Answer |
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Human Development | • Patterns of movement or change • Begins at conception & continues through lifespan |
Periods of Development | Prental, Infancy, Early Childhood, Middle & Late Childhood, Adolescence, Early Adulthood, Middle Adulthood, Late Adulthood |
Prenatal | begins at conception, ends at birth, only period w/ true beginning & end |
Infancy | begins at birth – 2 years, no biological timing for end |
• Early Childhood | 2 yrs – 5 yrs (kindergarten), no age/based on society, no biological beginning or end |
• Middle & Late Childhood | (5/6) Kindergarten – (10/11) Puberty, age varies, socially defined |
• Adolescence | puberty – adulthood (18), society determined |
• Early Adulthood | 18-25 through Middle Adulthood (39?), socially defined |
• Middle Adulthood | (39/40) – Late Adulthood (65-70 or retirement), difference is purely social |
• Late Audlthood | 65/70 – DEATH, true biological end |
characteristics of development | Life Long |