Educational Psychology / Unit 13 EDP 1211 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Three Questions About Development
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The idea
Development raises three recurring questions: continuous or discontinuous change, critical or sensitive periods, and how nature and nurture interact, since neither acts alone.
In practice
Language has a sensitive period: easiest early, still possible later with effort.
Where people slip
Ask whether later experience can still produce the change; if it can, the period was sensitive.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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