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An Introduction to Lifespan Development
1An Introduction to Lifespan DevelopmentFLDNMC01_002-041-hr 5/4/10 4:17 PM Page 213An Introduction toLifespan DevelopmentPROLOGUE:The Oldest Newest MotherIn May 2009, British businesswoman Elizabeth Adeney gave birth to a 5 pound 3 ounce infantboy. This would not be remarkable, of course, except for one startling fact: Elizabeth Adeneywas 66 years old at the time of her child s delivery. At the time, Elizabeth Adeney was the old-est woman to have ever given birth in the United Kingdom. chapter OVERVIEWAN ORIENTATION TO LIFESPANDEVELOPMENTC haracterizing Lifespan Development : TheScope of the FieldCohort and Other Influences onDevelopment: Developing with Others in aSocial WorldKEY ISSUES AND QUESTIONS:DETERMINING THE NATURE ANDNURTURE OF LIFESPANDEVELOPMENTC ontinuous Change VersusDiscontinuous ChangeCritical and Sensitive Periods: Gauging theImpact of Environm
CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to Lifespan Development 5 AHEADLOOKING human development and change. Instead, our understanding of people’s development re-quires that we look at the joint effects of the interaction of heredity and environment, attempting to grasp how both, in the end, underlie human behavior.
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