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Psychology

1. Name and define the three basic principles of development.
People develop at different rates. In your own classroom, you will have a whole range of examples of different developmental rates. Some students will be larger, better coordinated, or more mature in their thinking and social relationships. Others will be much slower to mature in those areas. Except in rare cases of very rapid or very slow development, such differences are normal and to be expected in any large group of students. Development is relatively orderly. People develop certain abilities before others. In infancy they sit before they walk, babble before they talk, and see the world through their own eyes before they can imagine how others see it. In school, they will master addition before algebra, Bambi before Shakespeare, and so on. Theorists may disagree on exactly what comes before what, but they all seem to find a relatively logical progression. Development takes place gradually. Very rarely do ...

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