Why Study Child Development

MosMost direct observations occur in the home, play groups, child care programs, and public places.

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Developmental acceleration is one of Brazelton and Greenspan’s irreducible needs.

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According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs, the need for love and acceptance is met when all needs have been fulfilled to some degree.

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Lev Vygotsky believed that some knowledge was a personal construction, but much was a social construction.

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A developmental delay occurs when a child performs like a younger child.

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 The principles of growth and development fit every person exactly.

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Sometimes heredity is called nurture.

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The four child development domains are physical growth and development, intellectual development, social development, and emotional development.

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Child development is the scientific study of children from birth to adolescence.

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