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Developmental Psychology emphasizes the philosophical and historical bases of the key conceptual issues in the field: the centrality of the nature-nurture issue; the importance of understanding the dynamics between continuity and discontinuity across the life span; the ways in which stances on the nature-nurture and continuity-discontinuity issues frame theories of human development; and, on the associations among philosophy, concepts, theories, methods, and applications of developmental science.