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The
BDS specialization embraces research as its central focus for the training
of scholars and professors of developmental science.
The primary goal of the program is to equip students with the
skills necessary to function as academic and/or research psychologists.
The BDS specialization is based on a lifespan developmental
perspective emphasizing the systematic description and explanation of
changes that organisms undergo as they develop. This approach to
developmental inquiry emphasizes the dynamic interplay of processes across
time frames, levels of analysis, and contexts. As such, it is a
comprehensive and integrative program that encompasses multiple approaches
to the study of development (i.e., biopsychology, cognitive, cultural,
experimental, family/intergenerational dynamics, genetics, perception,
personality, social). BDS
students have the opportunity to specialize on any phase of the lifespan
or on any issues or topics that span phases of the lifespan (see link
below for opportunities to work with individual faculty).
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