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Originally Posted by zubi
Q1 Whats the difference b/w growth, maturation and development??
Q2. What are the phases of growth, maturation and development??
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growth and maturation are almost similar and they are related to nature, whereas development involves nurture....
growth refers to the physical and orderly changes in the body with age, on the other hand development includes experience as well that how your different aspects of life developed with the passage of time....
growth is somewhat physical and development covers vast range of life....
maturation or growth is genetically controlled, development involves environmental domains as well....
i hope it will help you a bit, as it's not the complete answer.
growth includes,physical, mental....then there are certain stages as well...embryonic, prenatal, post natal, early childhood, childhood, late childhood, adolescence, old age etc...
in each phase then we observe social, physical,cognitive and other aspects of development.