Developmental Psychology
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Developmental Psychology
Developmental
psychology is the scientific study of
systematic psychological changes,
emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their
life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire life span. This
field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other
psycho-physiological processes; cognitive development involving areas such as problem solving, moral understanding, and
conceptual understanding; language acquisition; social, personality, and emotional development; and
self-concept and identity formation. 3 major contexts to consider when analysing child
psychology are: social context, cultural context, and socioeconomic context.
Developmental psychology includes issues such as the extent to which
development occurs through the gradual accumulation of knowledge versus
stage-like development, or the extent to which children are born with innate
mental structures versus learning through experience. Many
researchers are interested in the interaction between personal characteristics,
the individual's behavior, and environmental factors including social context, and their
impact on development; others take a more narrowly-focused approach.
Developmental psychology
informs several applied fields, including: educational psychology, child psychopathology, and forensic developmental psychology.
Developmental psychology complements several other basic research fields in psychology including social psychology, cognitive psychology, ecological psychology, and comparative psychology.
SOURCE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_psychology
Vocabulary list:
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Forensic
=Forensik
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Intraction
=Intraction
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Characteristics
=Karakteristik
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Fields
=Fields
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Social
=Sosial
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Cognitive
=Kognitif
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ecological
psychology
=Psikologi Ekologi
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Comparative
psychology
=Psikologi perbandingan
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Adolesome
=Adolesone
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Infents
=Infents
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