Study Guide for 301 Chapter 1 Development - the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span. Life Span perspective = views development as lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual and as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss. Life expectancy – the average # of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live Multidimensional – for example can include
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Describe two (2) developmental changes that occur in “adolescence” Adolescence is generally viewed as a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood, where the adolescent has to face developmental changes, such as biological, psychological, cognitive, emotional, social, moral and spiritual changes. Physical Changes During adolescence, boys and girls experience physical changes: • For both sexes height and weight increase, underarm and pubic hair begins to grow, leg and arm hair
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Development Matrix Part I – Developmental Stages For each developmental domain, physical, cognitive, and social, identify two major changes or challenges associated with the following stages: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Stage of Development | Physical Development | Cognitive Development | Social Development | Childhood | This is when a child begins to grow, crawl, walk, talk. They begin to develop gross and fine motor skills. | Their play will move from simple make-believe to
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development is internally initiated and occurs in a sequence of qualitatively different stages. It views development as bi-directional. The Mechanistic (passive) view suggests development is a passive predictable response to stimuli. 2. Is development continuous or does it occur in stages? Continuity or Discontinuity. The organismic approach emphasizes qualitative changes (discontinuous), while the mechanistic approach emphasizes quantitative changes (continuous). What is a theory? Definitions:
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University of Phoenix Material Developmental Stages Matrix |Developmental Stage |Physical changes |Cognitive changes |Socioemotional changes | |Infancy |(Berger, 2008) |(Berger, 2008) |(Berger, 2008) | |
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CHAPTER OUTLINE I. EXPLORING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Developmental psychology is concerned with the course and causes of developmental changes over a person’s entire lifetime. What does “genetic influence” mean? A. Historical Perspective 1. British empiricist philosopher John Locke in the 1690s argued that childhood experiences (nurture) permanently affect people. Empiricists saw the newborn as a blank slate or tabula rasa on which experience writes. 2. French philosopher
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childhood and adulthood, it is a very crucial period. Considerable biological change occurs as adolescents attain sexual and physical maturity. Annie will experience a growth spurt in her height, growth in her breast, start to develop body hair, these developments in her body will also cause curiosity, different interest in life. She is going to start to distance herself from her parents and start connecting with her fellow peers. Important social, emotional, and cognitive changes occur as adolescents
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Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Paper Team B BSHS/325 04/13/2015 Instructor: Maria Perrotta Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Paper Middle adulthood is a time of young adulthood and late adulthood. It accompanies many changes that some people may not be prepared for or welcome with open arms. The changes that usually deal with the mind and the body gradually develop as time continues to pass. Some of the most drastic changes are the physical changes that can have a profound
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but to maintain his independence and to play golf at all. 3. Traditional vs Life-Span Approach (see page 2) * Traditional Approach suggests that, most if not all changes occur from birth to adolescence (infancy), no change in adulthood and decline in old age. * Life-Span Approach suggests that we undergo changes throughout the course of our life, i.e. all stages of life, from birth till death. 4. Life Span vs. Life Expectancy * Life Span is the longest recorded age a human
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Lifespan development is the different stages a person passes through as he or she develops. Perspective of lifespan development understands the changes that occur in development. Freud and Piaget have very different theories of lifespan development. Freud’s theory is a basis of id, ego, and superego, whereas Piaget’s is a cognitive development that occurs over a person’s lifetime. Nature and Nurture are more than perspectives in lifespan development they influence how and who a person will be. Lifespan
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