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Question 1

What area does this study belong to

Answer 1

Developmental

Question 2

What are the principles of this area

Answer 2

The developmental area emphasises the importance of understanding the changes in behaviour through the life span from birth to death
It assumes development is an on going process
Changes over a persons life time is a result of inherited factors or lifetime experience (nature or nurture)
Individuals go through the same stages