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life events  

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  • Life events contribute to the nature and course of development throughout the life span. They are determined by normative age-graded, normative history-graded, and nonnormative influences and are a function of both biological and social/environmental factors (Baltes, Lindenberger, & Staudinger, 1998). [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Life Events]

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