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Jerome Kagan
Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Harvard University. Author of Unstable Ideas: Temperament, Cognition, and Self and many others.
Jerome Kagan,
Richard M. Lerner
Professor of Family and Child Ecology and of Psychology; Director, Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Author of Concepts and Theories of Human Development...
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human behaviour, the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity during the phases of human life. Humans, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of growth, each of which is characterized by a distinct set of physical, physiological, and behavioral features. These phases are prenatal life, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (including old age). Human development, or developmental psychology, is a field of study that attempts to describe and explain the changes in human cognitive, emotional, and behavioral capabilities and functioning over the entire life span, from the fetus to ...(100 of 18337 words)

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