DEVPSY life span L1

• human development is the study of how we change over time
• five characteristics of human development

  1. development is multidimensional
  2. development is lifelong
  3. development is multidirectional
  4. development is multidisciplinary
  5. development is multicontextual
• 3 general domains/ dimension of MULTIDIMENSIONAL

  1. physical
  2. cognitive
  3. psychosocial
• psychosocial refers to developmental changes in emotions and psychological concerns and social relationship
• development in life long

  at first, focus: childhood is freud and klein
• stage theories developmental changes often occurs in distinct stages
• freud psychosexual stages of development

  oral - 0-2 infant achieves gratification through oral activities such as feeding thumb sucking and babbling
• freud psychosexual stages of development

  anal - 2-3 the child learns to respond to some of the demands of society such as bowel and bladder control
• freud psychosexual stages of development

  phallic - 3-7 the child learns to realize the differences between male and females and becomes aware of sexuality
• freud psychosexual stages of development

  latency - 7-11 the child continues his or her development but sexual urges are relatively quiet
• freud psychosexual stages of development

  genital - 11 - adult the growing adolescent shakes off old dependencies and learn to deals maturely with the opposite sex
• piaget's stages of cognitive development

  0-2 sensorimotor stages

  2-7 pre operational stages

  7-11 concrete operational stages

  12-up formal operational stages
• 6 kohlberg theory of moral development

  1. rules are fixed and absolute
  2. judging actions according to individual needs
  3. confirming and being nice
  4. respecting authority
  5. considering individual rights
• kohlberg theory of moral development

  
  

  step 1 punishment and obedience orientation

  step 2 naive hedonism.

  step good boy/ girl morality.

  step 4 conforms to avoid, censure by authorities

  step 5 conforms to maintain community emphasis on Individual right

  step 6 individual principles of conscience
• erik Erikson is the father of developmental psychology
• 8 psychosocial theory stages

  basic trust vs mistrust

  autonomy vs shame doubt

  initiative vs guilt

  industry vs inferiority

  identity vs role confusion

  intimacy vs isolation

  generativity vs stagnation

  ego integrity vs despair
• continuous development - brain development and environmental experiences contribute to the acquisition if more advance skills
• human development is multidirectional - human changes in many direction
• being questioned: early childhood experiences dictate our future
• adulthood is also a dynamic period of life marked by continued cognitive
• triarchic theory of intelligence describe a type of a intelligence known as contextual intelligence as the ability to understand what is in situation
• analytic intelligence is mental steps used to solved problems
• creative intelligence use for experience in ways that foster insigght
• practical intelligence ability to read and adapt to the context of everyday life
• 4th cohort effect sometimes mistaken for age
• a cohort is a group of people who are born at roughly the same period in a particular society
• baby boomers is 1946-1960 (52-70)
• gen x is 1961-1980 (37-51)
• gen y 1981- 995 (22-36)
• gen z born after 1995 (7-21)
• generation alpha age under 7
• socioeconomic status is social standing, socioeconomic status or social class
• socioeconomic status is a way to identify families and household based on their shared levels of education, income and occupation
• socioeconomic status

  food poor- 7.9% - 11,773

  income poor only- 12.6 % - 16,872

  lower class- 74.3%

  middle class- 25.2 % -7,396

  upper class 0.1 % - 702,822
• culture is often referred to as a blueprint or guideline by a group of people that specifies how to live
• period of development

  
  

  1. prenatal
  2. infancy
  3. childhood
  4. juvenile era
  5. pre adolescence
  6. early adolescence
  7. late adolescence
  8. adulthood
• developmental psychology is the scientific study of changes that occur in human beings though their lives
• physical development is motor skills and other psychophysiologicall processess
• cognitive development is the problem solving, language and acquisition
• self concept and identity formation much o what is known concerning the lifespan has been information gathered through research