Lifespan Development: How Development Proceeds Flashcards
1
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Define: discontinuous development
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A developmental change that occurs in distinct and separate stags throughout the lifespan, with development of certain abilities having an identifiable start and end point
2
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Define: continuous development
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A gradual, linear and ongoing developmental change with behaviour in an earlier stage providing the basis of skills and abilities required for a later stage
3
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Define: quantitative changes
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A change in the amount of thinking, feeling or behaving in development
4
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Define: qualitative changes
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A change in the quality or kind of thinking, feeling or behaving in development
