Developmental Psychology

​Developmental Psychology is the study of science of how and why humans beings develop over the course of their life, originally focusing on infants and children the field has expanded to include adolescent, adult development, aging, and the whole entire life cycle the field examines change across a broad range of topics  including Motor Skills, Cognitive Development, Executive

Functions, Moral understanding, Language Acquisition , Social Change, Personality , Emotional Development , Self -Concept and Identity Formation

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Developmental Psychology examines the influences of nature and nurtures on the process of human development and processes of change in context and across time. Many types of research are interested in the interaction between Personal characteristics the individual behavior and environmental factors including social context and the built environment. ongoing debates include Biological essentialist vs neuroplasticity

And stages of Development vs Dynamic systems of Developments

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