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Beyond Bad Behavior: Understanding Developmental Change
This episode explores human growth across the lifespan, focusing on how people learn to think and how they learn to understand and manage emotions.
Topics include developmental misconceptions, Piaget’s ideas about assimilation and accommodation, theory of mind, research methods (cross-sectional, longitudinal, experimental), social referencing, and practical approaches to emotional regulation in children and adolescents.
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