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Below are the key terms featured in this chapter. The textbook's full glossary is also available for online searching.
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| Context | The settings in which development occurs |
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| Cross-cultural studies | Comparisons of one culture with one or more other cultures |
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| Culture | The behaviour patterns, beliefs, and products of a group that are past on from generation to generation |
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| Ethnicity | Based on cultural heritage, nationality characteristics, race, religion, and language |
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| Gender | The sociocultural dimension of being female or male |
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| Generational inequality | An aging society’s unfairness to its younger members due to older adults piling up advantages |
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| Innate goodness view | The idea, proposed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that children are inherently good |
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| Life-span perspective | Development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, contextual, multidisciplinary, and involves growth, maintenance, and regulation |
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| Original sin view | Children are born into the world as evil beings |
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| Social policy | A national government’s course of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens |
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| Tabula rasa view | The idea, proposed by John Locke, that children are like a “blank tablet” |