developmental change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdevelopmentalandchange
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developmental
adjective
uk/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/us/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To explaindevelopmentalchange, the grammar-based approaches exemplified here invoke the concept of maturation.
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The fact that there is a relateddevelopmentalchangein the spatial and the temporal dimensions would be difficult to explain with the independence hypothesis.
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The known items, to the contrary, do show adevelopmentalchangewith age.
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Second, it examines a new dimension ofdevelopmentalchangein children's private speech, namely, age-related changes in the contexts in which children talk to themselves.
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But other parameters may be undergoingdevelopmentalchangeas well.
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The next question to answer is what accounts for thedevelopmentalchangebetween three and five years of age.
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Cross-language speech perception :developmentalchangedoes not involve loss.
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These effects of the leaving home transition may reflect either continuity in behavior over time or stagelikedevelopmentalchange.
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A theory ofdevelopmentalchangein quantitative phenotypes applied to cognitive development.
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Issues examined includeddevelopmentalchange, contextual differences, consistency across contexts and stability over time.
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Developmentalchangein speed of processing during childhood and adolescence.
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Despite the apparent normative increase in behavior associated with reward during adolescence, knowledge of the mechanisms of thisdevelopmentalchangeis scant.
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To be sure, there is adevelopmentalchangein the child's ability to move food by hand.
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Performance across these complex-span tasks is remarkably consistent and shows exceptionally consistentdevelopmentalchange.
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One interesting question is whether treatment is best enacted during periods ofdevelopmentalchangeor those of relative stability.
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Time-related questions are critical for developing and refining a theory of clinical anddevelopmentalchange.
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Note that the value and direction of each vector can be altered dramatically concomitant todevelopmentalchangeand environmental circumstance.
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This is in marked contrast to the traditional emphasis on static innate knowledge representations and its marginalization of the process ofdevelopmentalchange.
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These processes would appear to reflect normativedevelopmentalchange, against a sociocultural structure that contributes to the concern over behaviors that may lack authenticity.
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