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Theory: Coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain and predict data

Hypotheses: Possible explanations for phenomena, used to predict the outcome of research

Mechanistic model: Model that views development as a passive, predictable response to stimuli

Organismic model: Model that views development as internally initiated by an active organism and as occurring in a sequence of qualitatively different stages

Psychoanalytic perspective: View of development as shaped by unconscious forces

Psychosexual development: In Freudian theory, an unvarying sequence of stages of personality development during infancy, childhood, and adolescence, in which gratification shifts from the mouth to the anus and then to the genitals

Psychosocial development: In Erikson's eight stage theory, the socially and culturally influenced process of development of the ego, or self.

Learning perspective: View of development that holds that changes in......

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