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What are the domains of development?
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Biosocial, cognitive and psychosocial.
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What are biosocial domains?
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Physical, biological and evolutionary factors affecting growth and development.
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What are cognitive domains?
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Perception, memory and imagination which affect growth and development.
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What are psychosocial domains?
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Emotions, personality and relationships with other people that affect growth and development.
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What does the term 'nature' refer to?
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Genetic and various inborn biological factors affecting overall development.
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What does the term 'nurture' refer to?
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The influences of development arising from experience.
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When we say 'epigenetic,' we mean what?
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A combination of nature and nurture.
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Define continuity.
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An uninterrupted succession or flow; a steady progression.
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Define discontinuity.
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An abrupt shift or change.
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Contexts of development describes what?
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Circumstances which affect development.
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Name some contexts of development.
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Society, home, school, gender and socioeconomic status.
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What are the (hint: six) steps of scientific research?
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1. Question 4. Test
2. Hypothesize 5. Conclude
3. Predict 6. Publish
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Describe what naturalistic observation and field experiment is, and name a drawback.
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A research method where persons are observed in their natural environment. Variability is a drawback.
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What are independent/dependent variables and what do they refer to?
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They refer to a controlled experiment. Independent is the difference a group receives and dependent is the measure of response and behavior.
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