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Development
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The patterns of change in human capabilities that begins at conception and continues through the life span
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3 processes of development
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Physical, cognitive and socioemotional
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Physical processes
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Change in biological nature
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Cognitive processes
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Changes in thought, intelligence and language
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Socioemotional processes
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Changes in an individuals relationships with others, changes in emotions and personality
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Early-experience believes that:
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After a period of early development, we become relatively fixed and permanent in make up
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Later-experience believes that:
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Children are malleable, sensitive car giving important thought out life
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Genotype
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An individuals genetic heritage, the actual genetic material
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Phenotype
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The expression of an individual's genotype in observable, measurable characteristics (usually physical characteristics)
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Nature
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An organism's biological inheritance
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Nurture
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An organism's environmental experience
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Conception
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Aka fertilization, when sperm penetrates ovum
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Zygote
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Fertilized egg
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3 steps of prenatal development
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Germinal period, embryonic period, fetal period
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Germinal period
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Weeks 1 and 2, begins with conception, zygote divides, attaches to wall of uterus
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