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What is a theory?
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Coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain, and predict data.
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What are hypotheses?
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Possible explanation for phenomena, used to predict the outcome of research.
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What is the mechanistic model?
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Model that views human development as a series of predictable responses to stimuli.
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What is the organismic model?
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Model that views human development as internally initiated by an active organism and as occuring in a sequence of qualitatively different stages.
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What is quantitive change?
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Change in number or amount, such as in height, weight, or the size of vocabulary.
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What is qualitative change?
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Change in kind, structure, or organization, such as the change from nonverbal to verbal communication.
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What is the psychoanalytic perspective?
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View of human development as being shaped by unconscioius forces.
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What is psychosexual development?
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In Freudian theory, an unvarying sequence of stages of childhood personality development in which gratification shifts from the mouth to the anus and then to the genitals.
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