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Developmental Psychology

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Developmental psychology studies how people change physically, cognitively, and socially across the entire lifespan.

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The same question about memory is asked of a four-year-old, a twenty-year-old, and an eighty-year-old.

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Development does not end at adulthood. Treating it as childhood study is a century-old habit the field abandoned.