Lifespan Development

• Lifespan development = age-related changes that occur from birth, throughout a person's life into and during old age
•  Developmental norms = the ages at which an average individual is expected to reach various milestones of development
• Psychological development: the changes in an individual's social, emotional and cognitive abilities, from infancy through to old age.
• Physical/biological development = changes in the body and its various systems
• Cognitive development = changes in an individual's mental abilities
•  Social development = changes in individual's relationships with other people and their skills in interacting with others
• Emotional development = changes in how an individual experiences different feelings and how these feelings are expressed, interpreted and dealt with