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  • The Study of Child Development: Then and Now
    • Early approaches
    • Developmental psychology becomes a science
    • Studying the life span
    • New frontiers

  • The Study of Child Development: Basic Concepts
    • Domains of development
    • Periods of development

  • Influences on Development
    • General influences
    • Major contextual influences
    • Normative and nonnormative influences
    • Timing of influences: Critical or sensitive periods

  • An emerging consensus





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