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  • Major Adjustment of Infancy

    Infants must make four major adjustments before they can resume their developmental progress. If they do not make them quickly, their lives will be threatened. While these adjustments are being made, there is no developmental progress ...

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  • 5 Characteristics Of Infancy

    6 years, 7 months ago

    Infancy, or the period of the newborn, is, according to standard dictionaries, the beginning or the early period of existence as an individual rather than as a parasite in the mother’s body. Dictionaries also define an infant as a child ...

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  • Unfavorable Attitudes on the Part of Significant People

    The third common psychological hazard during the prenatal period is unfavourable attitudes on the part of significant people in the child’s life. This is, in many respects, the most serious and far-reaching ...

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  • Why It's Important To Conceive

    6 years, 7 months ago
    Importance of Conception

    At the time of conception, four important conditions are determined that influence the individual’s later development. What role each of these conditions plays in the individual’s development will explain why the time of conception is probably the ...

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  • How Life Begins

    New life begins with the union of a male sex cell and a female sex cell. These sex cells are developed in the reproductive organs, the gonads. The male sex cells, the spermatozoa (singular: spermatozoon), are produced ...

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  • In spite of the fact that the first developmental period in the life span is next to the shortest of all – the shortest is the period of the newborn or infancy – it is in many respects one of ...

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  • Happiness and Unhappiness During the Life Span

    Life satisfaction, usually referred to as “happiness,” comes from the fulfilment of a need or wish and, as such, is the cause or means of enjoyment. As Alston and Dudley have explained ...

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  • Subdivisions of the Life Span

    Regardless of how long or how short the total life span is, it is usually subdivided into stages or periods, each of which is characterized by certain behavioural or developmental characteristics. Chronological age (C.A ...

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  • Attitudes toward Developmental Changes

    Although changes of a physical or psychological nature are constantly taking place, many people are only vaguely aware of them unless they occur abruptly or markedly affect the pattern of their lives. The changes of old ...

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  • Developmental psychology is the branch of psychology that studies intraindividual changes and interindividual changes within those intraindividual changes. Its task, as La Bouvie has pointed out, is “not only description but also explication of age-related changes in behaviour in terms ...

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