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Human development

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A person’s development from birth to death

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Development

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The prenatal, neonatal, childhood part of development

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Domain specificity

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something that happens that happens on it’s own because of the environment

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Mimicry

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repeating actions or sounds, it’s the way of learning

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Quantatative development

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improvement on a skill

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Qualitative

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when a skill becomes an ability

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Connectionism

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When skills are developed

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Prenatal

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Before birth and when still in the womb

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Sensory effects

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Baby can still hear the mom through the belly which helps the baby recongize the moms voice when born.

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Nature

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The mom’s genes and environment change the nature of the child’s development

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Nurture

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What the mother ingests that effects the baby

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Omega 3

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promotes hand-eye coordination, iq, and wight

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Main influences hormone

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Insulin

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Teratogens

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any chemical that are toxic and disrupt the development of the baby

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Types of teratogens

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Virus, Bacteria, Drugs, Neurotransmitters

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Neonatal

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New born

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Maturation

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The modification of behaviour due to the purning of neurons

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Habituation

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Overtime a child gets less excited by new things because they are used to it.

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Pruning of neurons

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First two years develop many paths then lose the paths during 4 years old to 6 years old

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Newborn screening

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Apgar test for the six basic reflexes

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Apgar reflexes

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Sucking, Moro(defence), Tonic neck (moving head and reach out hand in direction), Barinsky (holding on)

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Reason for reflexes

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development of later movements and signals the development of the cerebellum

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Biomarkers

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help know how developed the brain is

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Sensory discrimination

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When a baby can see the differences using the senses

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Visual cliff

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an experiment to see what age visual cues develop in relation to elevation

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Phonemes

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Smallest meaningful unit of sound

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Parentese

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orient towards the higher pitch and slower sounds that a baby prefers

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Baby preferences

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Babies develop music and story prefences when in the womb and prefer the same things over and over

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Piaget’s theory

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This is a “hard stage” theory where one stage has to be resolved before the next can occur.

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Schema

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an internal representation of behaviour. in children this is reflexes

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Assimilation

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adding new information to the schema if it fits

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accommodation

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changing the schema when it doesn’t fit

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0-2 years old

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Sensoy motor stage. this is the age where a child learns about object permanence and symbolic thought. The means that children are aware of objects existing and changing outside of sight.

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Object permanence

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Objects can exist even when you can’t see it

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Symbolic thought

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recongition that item can be moved outside of sight

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2-7 years old

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Pre-operational, this stage is when children learn lack of conservation, reversability, centration and egocentrism.

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Lack of conservation

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When one aspect changes, all information from before the change is thrown out.

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Reversability

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Children cannot remember things how they used to be and only see things as they are.

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Centration

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only focusing on one thing or aspect.

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Egocentrism

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A child cannot understand that everyone sees the world from a different set of sensory perspectives.

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7-11 years old

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Concrete operational stage where a child can apply logical thinking

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Logical thinking

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When a child can apply one mathematical rule at a time, but still has difficulties when applying multiple

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12 + years old

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Formal operational, when a child is assumed to have the same level of thinking possible as an adult.

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Abstract thinking

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When a child can think about a mathmatical or logical senario outside the confines of normal sensory experiences.

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Criticisms of Piaget’s theory

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  1. Only works in a school setting
  2. Kids can achieve some stages socially before they can mathematically
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Social child theory

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Children learn socially from other people and learn better in general when guided by an adult.

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Scaffolding

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Mentors provide children with guiding questions to let a child control the learning experience and show how to carry out a task

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Zone of proximal development

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Making challenges one intellectual level above a child’s abilities

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Artifact

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An object that only has meaning within the culture

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Domain specificity (Development theories)

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A child cannot transfer knowledge from there mathmatical to social spheres/schemas

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Mother cupboard

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Predominate western theory that children only love their parents because they provide food

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Contact comfort

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Predominate theory of attachment that children love their parents because they provide emotional support

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Strange situation

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An experiment to test a child’s emotional relationship with there primary care giver by the child’s reaction when the mother returns

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Secure attachment

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High proximity and low anxiety when around care giver, giving a child a caring are trustful relationship

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Anxious attachment

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Hight proximity, high anxiety, likely from an Asian culture where kids are not left alone

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Avoidant attachment

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Low anxiety, low proximity, likely from a metateranian culture where kids have multiple care givers.

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A stage in life that is only present in western cultural and is defined by puberty and hormones

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Adolescence

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Creating new neuro connections before two

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Synaptic genesis

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The removal of neuro connections that are not needed. Occurs from 12 - 16

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Synaptic pruning

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What age is the brain considered an adult

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12 years old

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Parents who are warm, sensitive to child’s needs, and includes the child in decision making

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Authoritative parenting

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High self-esteem, cooperativeness, self-control, social maturity

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Authoritative parenting outcomes

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Parent who is harsh, makes demands of child, creates hard rules, and critical

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Authoritarian parenting

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Low self-esteem, anxious, unhappy, often angry and aggressive.

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Authoritarian parenting outcomes

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Warm, accepting, overindulgent and overly giving

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permissive parenting

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Impulsive, disobedient, dependant, and where many intitled people comes from

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permissive parenting outcomes

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Emotionally detached, and little energy spent on child

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Neglectful parenting

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Anxious, poor communicators, anti-social

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Neglectful parenting style outcomes

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Things that cause a parent to change their attitudes

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Child’s temperament, situation, age, and cognition

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A hard stage theory that explains how morals develop

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Kohlberg’s theory of moral development

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Egoism

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How the individual feels about them self

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Social

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how the individual feels about them self

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Principal

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rules for life

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Three spheres of moral development

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egoism, social and principal

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Stage one and two occur before 9 years old and the child learns about what they can get away with

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Pre-conventional

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where the child is encouraged to avoid pain but cannot see the perspective of others

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Stage 1

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A child will get a reward if they ydo the right thing. The reward can be anything from socially fitting in to getting candy. The child also understands that others have goals and preferences

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Stage 2

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Morality is all about doing what is right to get society’s approval.

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Conventional

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The expectancies of society are followed and the intentions of others are recognized

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Stage 3

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Following the rules only to avoid being arrested, so that society doesn’t disapprove. Understand abstract normative systems.

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Stage 4

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Only 10 to 15% of people get here and morality is determined by ethical prinicpals

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Post-conventional

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Promoting society’s well being based on one’s own principals of morality

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Stage 5

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Achieving justice through mutual respect

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Stage 6

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Criticisms of Kohlberg

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  1. Towards a masculine view of morals
  2. Morals change by culture
  3. Does not consider the emotional side of decisions
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Our idenity is based around how we find our job and if we did enough exploration and how committed we are.

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Identity status (Erikson)

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What are the four identities

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Identity forclosure (High commitment low expoloration), identity diffusion (low everything), Identiy achievement ( high everything), Moratorium ( high exploration low commitment)

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A soft stage social development theory that focuses on if the child has a negative or positive outcome at each stage. This development influences their identity.

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Erikson’s development theory

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How to gain wisdom

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With a positive outcome in each of erikson’s developmental stages a person gains wisdom.

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Trust verus mistrust

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birth to 1

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Autonomy versus shame

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1 to 3

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Initiative versus guilt

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3 to 6

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Industry versus inferiority

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6 to 12

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identity veruse confusion

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12 to 20

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intimacy versus isolation

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20 -30

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generativity versus self-absorbtion

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30 to 65

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Integrity versus despair

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65+

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