Maturational

Separating and individuating refer to the maturational step of becoming a separate person, with clear self-other boundaries. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)

You can't prevent enuresis from prolonging because it's due to a delay in attainment of night-time bladder control, what's also known as maturational delay. "

Speaking as someone who was a teen not too long ago (smile), I can appreciate the desire to indulge in pop culture far beyond your maturational capabilities, but as we grow older we (hopefully) get wiser, and find ourselves turning into our parents … when at one time we would have rather had a super sharp needle stuck in our eye than to ever admit that could happen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Concealed in this behavior, they say, is a need for acceptance and to be liked and loved, which is a healthy desire that has always been a part of the maturational process. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Normal white blood cells developing in the bone marrow undergo a series of maturational steps to develop into fully functional adult cells. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

Dr. SUSAN TAPERT (Psychiatry, University of California San Diego): First of all, the adolescent brain is still undergoing several maturational processes that render it more vulnerable to some of the effects of substances. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Klein ultimately designated this maturational move as a shift from a ‘paranoid-schizoid position’ to a ‘depressive position’. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This presents a unique opportunity to investigate how literacy changes the brain, without the maturational … ❋ Unknown (2009)

It also deals with sex in a purely mechanical way, avoiding the complicated aspects of sex that are so important--the maturational/emotional/cultural ---human factors that are implicated in sex and sexual relations. ❋ Sage (2009)

Brumberg argues that just as this was happening,American cultural understandings of menstruationturned itinto a hygiene problem, not a maturational milestone, meaning we give girls information about tampons and sanitary pads but not much about what these changes really mean. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lego won a large following as an “instructive game” in the late fifties and early sixties, and when the ultimate maturational television program, Sesame Street, debuted in 1969, a line of educational toys followed in its wake. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“On the evidence for maturational constraints in second-language acquisition”, ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

“Critical period effects in 2nd language-learning - the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of english as a 2nd language.” ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

But, Tomasello argues, such measures are ad hoc in the absence of a detailed specification of what these maturational or performance factors are, and how they give rise to children's actual performance. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)