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Chapter 1: Perspectives on Child Development

Chapter 1: Perspectives on Child Development

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, The Open University
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Extract

Identify different perspectives on child development; describe important features about how children grow, adapt, and change; illustrate what is unique about human childhood.

Keywords

  • Adaptation
  • Evolution
  • Evolutionary mismatch
  • Life-history theory
  • Natural selection
  • Norms
  • Psychology
  • Foraging
  • Cause and effect
  • Cascades of development
  • active learning

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