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At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
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Explain the importance of studying life-span development |
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Describe the history of interest in children and adolescents and indicate how contemporary concerns have arisen from previous views |
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Describe the seven basic characteristics of the life-span perspective |
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List and describe the three interacting systems of contextualism |
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Describe the role that experts in developmental psychology have regarding health and well-being, parenting and education, sociocultural contexts, and social policy |
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Define and distinguish between biological processes, cognitive processes, and socioemotional processes |
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Understand the major developmental periods from conception to death |
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Define and distinguish between chronological age, biological age, psychological age, and social age |
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Understand the three major developmental issues (nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity, stability and change). |
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Identify several options that are available to individuals who are interested in careers in life-span development |