Human Growth and Development

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...