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VCE Psychology Unit 1 - Psychological
Development Questions and Answers (100%
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Developmental change Ans: change that is relatively permanent
Physical development Ans: changes in the body and its various systems
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Social development Ans: changes in an individual's relationships with
other people and their skills in interacting with others
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Cognitive development Ans: changes in an individual's mental abilities,
such as reasoning, problem solving, decision making, perception,
learning, memory and use of languages
Emotional development Ans: changes in how an individual experiences
different feelings and how these feelings are expressed, interpreted and
dealt with
heredity Ans: transmission of characteristics from biological parents to
their offspring via genes at the time of conception
environment Ans: all the experiences, objects and events to which
people are exposed throughout their lifetimes
maturation Ans: the orderly and sequential developmental changes
that occur in the nervous system and other bodily structures controlled
by genes