FOUNDATION OF HUMAN DEV

• Developmental Psychology


  description and explanation of changes that occur in psychological processes at any point in the life span.
• Developmental Psychologist


  study how heredity and environment interact to produce change from conception throughout the lifespan
• Lifelong Perspective


  womb to tomb
• Multidirectional perspective


  study of change from multiple directions of influence.
• Butterfly effect


  one small action set of as much larger chain of major events.
• Multicultural 


  many influential culture that has separate values, tradition etc
• Multidisciplinary 


  many different fields in order to effectively study development
• Plasticity


  developmental changes occur throughout the lifespan and can be drastically altered at any point in time
• Multi-contextual - many context that can affect human dev


  Normative age-graded influences, Normative history-graded, Nonnormative life events
• Development involves


  growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss
• Development is co-construction of biology, culture, and the individual 


  we can go beyond what our genetic inheritance or environment give us
• Internal factors - Genetics, Physical Maturation, Cognition
• External factors - Socioeconomic status, Availability of resources, Social influences