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The four broad issues that guide a lot of developmental research are: nature and nurture, critical and sensitive periods, continuity versus discontinuity and stability versus change. |
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Infants have been found to prefer looking at complex patterns rather than simple patterns or solid colors. |
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Research has found that Piaget's four stages of cognitive development do not occur in the same order cross culturally. |
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Object permanence refers to an infant's ability to understand that an object exists even when it cannot be seen. |
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Vygotsky's concept, zone of proximal development, suggests that children can master difficult skills with the aid of a more skilled individual like a parent or an older peer. |
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Piaget believed that children younger than 6 years old were able to master "theory of mind," that is, they were able to understand another person's mental state. |
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Bowlby proposed that attachment in infancy occurs in two stages – basic trust versus mistrust and initiative versus guilt. |
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As measured by the strange-situation procedure, regardless of the type of child care provided, children who attended a child care facility displayed insecure attachment to their parents. |
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Children develop gender identity by the age of three. Gender constancy is understood around the age of six or seven. |
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Gender constancy, the understanding that one's being male or female is a permanent part of the person, occurs around age six to seven. |
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Barb always stops at stop signs, she pays her bills on time and is never late to work. Her moral stage would fall under the conventional moral reasoning level. |
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Correlational studies on aging have indicated that cognitive functioning deteriorates regardless of the activities, such as reading or traveling, that a person may participate in. |
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