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Critical period
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Specific time when a given event or its absence has a specific impact on development
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Mechanistic model
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Locke, model that views human development as a series of predictable responses to stimuli
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Organismic model
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Rousseau, model that views human development as internally initiated by an active organism and as occurring in a sequence of qualitatively different stages
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Freud's psychosexual theory
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Behavior is controlled by powerful unconscious urges
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Erikson's psychosexual theory
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Personality is influenced by society and develops through a series of crises
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Piaget's cognitive-stage theory
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Qualitative changes in thought occur between infancy and adolescence
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Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
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Social interaction is central to cognitive development
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Information-processing theory
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Human being are processors of symbols
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Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory
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Development occurs through interaction between person and surroundings
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Bowlby's attachment theory
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Human being have the adaptive mechanisms to survive
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Quantitative change
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Change in number or amount (height)
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Qualitative change
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Change in kind structure or organization (nonverbal to verbal communication
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Psychoanalytic perspective
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Human development is shaped by unconscious forces
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Psychosexual development
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Freudian theory stages of childhood personality development in gratification shifts from mouth to the anus then to the genitals
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Psychosocial development
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Erikson's eight-stage theory socially and culturally influenced process of development of ego or self
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