Developmental Psych

• Development Is Lifelong In the life-span perspective, early adulthood is not the endpoint of development; rather, no age period dominates development
• Development Is Multidimensional No matter what your age might be, your body, mind, emotions, and relationships are changing and affecting each other.
• Biological processes produce changes in an individual’s physical nature
• Cognitive processes refer to changes in the individual’s thought, intelligence, and language.
• Socioemotional processes involve changes in the individual’s relationships with other people, changes in emotions, and changes in personality
• A developmental period refers to a time frame in a person’s life that is characterized by certain features. For the purposes of organization and understanding, we commonly describe development in terms of these periods.
• The prenatal period is the time from conception to birth. It involves tremendous growth— from a single cell to an organism complete with brain and behavioral capabilities—and takes place in approximately a 9-month period
• Infancy is the developmental period from birth to 18 or 24 months. and it is a time of extreme dependence upon adults.
• Early childhood is the developmental period from 3 through 5 years of age. This period is sometimes called the “preschool years.”
• Psychoanalytic theories describe development as primarily unconscious (beyond awareness) and heavily colored by emotion.
• Middle and late childhood is the developmental period from about 6 to 10 or 11 years of age, approximately corresponding to the elementary school years.
• Introduced psychiactric drug

  
  

  Errol Kraepelin
• 3 goals of development

  Growth, Maintenance, Regulation of Loss
• Normal aging is most individuals where psychological functioning often peaks in early middle age
• Pathological aging shows greater than average decline as they through the adult years
• Succesful aging is individuals whose positive physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development is maintained longer.
• Known for evolutionary psychology

  David Buss
• Acknowledge the importance of evolution human adaptation

  Albert Bandura
• Other name of Erik Erickson

  Erick Solamensen
• Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory consists of five environmental systems:

  • Microsystem
  • Mesosystem
  • Exosystem
  • Macrosystem
  • Chronosystem
• Mitosis Cellular reproduction in which the cell’s nucleus duplicates itself with two new cells being formed, each containing the same DNA as the parent cell, arranged in the same 23 pairs of chromosomes
• meiosis A specialized form of cell division that occurs to form eggs and sperm (also known as gametes)
• fertilization A stage in reproduction when an egg and a sperm fuse to create a single cell, called a zygote
• zygote A single cell formed through fertilization
• chromosomes Threadlike structures that come in 23 pairs, with one member of each pair coming from each parent.
• DNA is a complex molecule that contains genetic information
• Genes help cells to reproduce themselves and help manufacture the proteins that maintain life
• Components of life span development:

  Development is Plastic

  Developmment is Multidimensional

  Development is Multidirectional

  Development is Science and Multidisciplinary

  Development is Contextual