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What is biological change?
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Changes in the brain and body over time: from growing up, experience, hormones or injury.
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What is maturation?
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The gradual development of the brain and body on a rough biological timetable.
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What is neuroplasticity?
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The brain reshaping its connections through experience, such as practice.
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Give an example of hormonal biological change.
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The hormone surge at puberty, which reshapes body, brain and mood.
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How can the brain change after injury?
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Through plasticity, healthy areas can slowly take over some functions of the damaged area.
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Gradual or sudden biological change?
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Maturation and practice are gradual. A rise in hormones or a brain injury can change behaviour suddenly.
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Why is biological change linked to the concept of change?
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It is a main engine of how and why behaviour changes over time.
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Two biological changes behind a teen improving at a skill?
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Neuroplasticity (practice strengthens pathways) and maturation (planning regions develop).
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What is biological determinism?
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The view that behaviour is decided by biology, leaving no real choice.
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Why is biology not destiny?
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The brain is changed by what we do, and the same biology leads to different lives in different surroundings.
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