[PSYCH 250] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (36 pages long!)
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Development: the development of human beings" cognitive, emotional, intellectual, and social capabilities and functioning over the course of the lifespan, from infancy through old age. Multidirectional: a characteristic of development, referring to its nonlinear progression-gains and losses, compensations and deficits, predictable and unexpected changes. Critical period: time when a particular type of development must happen if it"s ever going to happen. Sensitive period: time when a certain type of development is most likely to happen. Multicultural: a characteristic of development, which takes place within many cultural settings worldwide and thus reflects a multitude of values, traditions, and tools for living. Multicontextual: a characteristic of development, referring to the fact that each human life takes place within a number of contexts- historical, cultural, and socioeconomic. Cohort: all persons born at the time who experience the same historical events and cultural shifts. Ses: combination of income, education, occupation, neighborhood.
