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WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT? Gain some insight about your own development Know more about what you face as you continue your own development Learn more about your peers & your caregivers
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LIFE-SPAN:OVERVIEW
DEVELOPMENT What is “development?” How do you define it?
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT? Gain some insight about your own
development Know more about what you face as you
continue your own development Learn more about your peers & your caregivers
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE?
Development is:Lifelong - you never stop
developingMultidimensional – you grow in
more than one wayContextual – the place you are in
age influenceshistory influenceslife events
WHAT ARE THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES? Biological, Cognitive, & Socioemotional
Biological Processes
(Physical Development)
Cognitive Processes
(Psychological Dev)
Socioemotional Processes
(Relationship Skills)
DEVELOPMENTAL PERIODS Periods of Development
Prenatal Period Infancy Early Childhood Middle and Late Childhood Adolescence Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood Late Adulthood
WHAT ARE THE 4 CONCEPTIONS OF AGE? Chronological Age
The age you are now Biological Age
Physical age Psychological Age
Mental age Social Age
Ability to make friends w/peers & non-peers
DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES Nature and Nurture Stability and Change Continuity and Discontinuity
Preoperational Stage:The child begins to use words & images to explain their world. These words & images reflect increased symbolic thinking and go beyond the connection of sensory information and physical action.
Formal Operational StageThe adolescent reasons in more abstract idealistic & logical ways.
SENSORIMOTOR STAGE:The infant constructs an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with physical actions: progressing from reflexive, instinctual action at birth to the beginning of symbolic thought toward end of the stage.
Concrete Operational Stage:The child can reason logically about concrete (real) events & classify objects into different sets.
11–15 YEARS of
age through adulthood
Birth to 2 years of age
2 to 7 years of age
7 to 11 years of age
What Are Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development?
ERIKSON’S PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY 8 stages of development Psychosocial crisis at each stage The stages:
Trust Versus Mistrust (First Year) Autonomy Versus Shame and Doubt (1-3 years) Initiative Versus Guilt (3-5 years) Industry Versus Isolation (6 years – puberty) Identity Versus Identity Confusion (10-20 years) Intimacy Versus Isolation (20s, 30s) Generativity Versus Stagnation (40s, 50s) Integrity Versus Despair (60s onward)
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