1. Developmental Psychology 2. Outline sex differentiation 3. Embryo Development 4. Fetal Development Human Development is the scientific study of how people change and stay the same overtime. Development is a process that produces a progressive series of changes that are orderly and coherent and which lead to and end with, maturity. It is the interaction of maturity and learning. As viewed by Hurlock, development includes only changes that lead forward and excludes those that go backward. Growth is considered as the quantitative changes and development which include changes in the amount of something such as height, weight, chronological age, etc. Qualitative changes come in the form of changes in the nature of the functioning of an organ with resulting improved efficiency and accuracy of performance, which refer to development. It follows a sequential pattern that is predictable, but children vary in the rates with which they go through this predictable pattern.
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