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Published: 06.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'The Study of Development', 1.
Extract

Developmental psychology is the branch of psychology that describes, explains, predicts, and sometimes aims to modify age-related behaviors from conception to death; this field emphasizes maturation, early experiences, and various stages in development. All fields of psychology are faced with theoretical issues. There are three theoretical issues in human development; nature versus nurture, continuity versus stages and stability versus change.
The first issue is nature versus nurture. This controversy goes back to the ancient Greeks. …

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