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If you’ve ever tried to teach developmental psychology using only a heavy, linear PDF, you know the pain. You flip furiously between a case study about identity foreclosure in a 16-year-old and a chart about brain myelination, hoping the student on the back row is still with you. They have a lot to teach you about
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