Human Growth and Development
Lecture 1 - Introduction
1/10/06
- Development...
- Answers the question of "How have I become the person I am?"
- is orderly
- is relatively long lasting
- produces something that is new or qualitatively different from what was present earlier
- results in superior functioning
- Life-Span Development
- Traditional approach
- Life-span approach
- Life-Span Perspective
- Lifelong
- Multidimentional
- Growth, Maintenance, Regulation
- Plastic
- Multidisciplinary
- Contextual
- Sociocultural Contexts
- Historic/economic/social/cultural
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Sex vs. Gender
- SES
- Developmental Periods
- Prenatal
- Infancy
- Early Childhood
- Middle/late Childhood
- Adolescence
- Early Adulthood
- Middle Adulthood
- Late Adulthood
- Conceptions of Age
- Chronological
- Biological
- Psychological
- Social
- Developmental Issues
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Continuity vs. Discontinuity
- Stability vs. Change
- Developmental Quiz...
Human Growth and Development
Last updated: 1/9/06