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One of the major questions which developmental psychologists have studied is whether or not there is a critical period in the first stages of human development, and, if there is, how long it extends after birth. By ‘critical period’ we mean a stage during which the child is highly ‘malleable’, when the occurrence of damaging experiences might have long term (perhaps life-long) consequences.
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© 1996 Philip Banyard and Andrew Grayson
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Hodges, J., Tizard, B. (1996). Family Life. In: Introducing Psychological Research. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24483-6_34
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