3 Educational Psychology: Nature, Methods & Development · 3.2 Growth and development
3.2.1 Growth and development: concepts, principles, heredity and environment
Growth is the measurable increase in size and weight of the body and its parts, which stops at maturity; development is the lifelong, orderly series of quantitative and qualitative changes in the whole person that follows predictable principles and comes from the interaction of heredity and environment.
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Key terms
- growth
- development
- maturation
- developmental psychology
- Crow and Crow
- differentiation
- integration
- principles of development
- continuity
- uniform sequence
- general to specific
- cephalocaudal
- proximodistal
- individual differences
- predictability
- developmental hazards
- developmental delay
- critical period
- sensitive period
- imprinting
- heredity
- environment
- genes
- chromosomes
- meiosis
- zygote
- genotype
- phenotype
- Down syndrome
- Turner syndrome
- twin studies
- Scarr and McCartney
- nature and nurture
- Gesell
- Galton
- Hurlock
- Woodworth
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