Development Key Concept

the scientific study of the changes that occurs in people as they age from conception until death

• convetional development

• generativity

• human development

• nurture

research design in which one participant of groups of participants is studied over a long period of time

• cross-sectional design

• longitudinal design

• cross-sequential design

• horizontal design

research design in which sever different participant age-groups are studied at one particular point in

• longitudinal design

• cross-sequential design

• cross-sectional design

• horizontal design

research design in which participants are first studied by means of a cross-sectional design but are also followed and assessed longitudinally

• cross-sequential design

• longitudinal design

• cross-sectional design

• horizontal design

the influence of our inherited characteristics on our personality, physical growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions

• egocentrism

• intimacy

• nurture

• nature

the influence of the environment on personality, physical growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions

• nature

• nurture

• genertics

• intimacy

the science of inherited traits

• genetics

• DNA

• genes

• scheme

special molecule that contains the genetic material of the organism

• chromosome

• ATC

• gene

• DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

section of DNA having the same arrangement of chemical elements

• genetics

• gene

• chromosome

• DNA

tightly wound strand of genetic materiel or DNA

• DNA

• gene

• chromosome

• genetics