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Let’s follow Dave.
Dave is a hypothetical typical person. And we’ll follow his entire lifespan. But let’s start with what development is.
Here’s what is included in this lesson:
- 11 characteristics of development
- 4 goals for studying development
- Maturation
- Lifespan
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Notes
- Developmental Psych
- Lifespan Development
- Child Development
- Adolescence
- Geriatrics
- Includes all aspects of humans
- from conception to death
- life span
- Constancy and change
- Consistent
- Always changing
- Principles
- Maturation = rogrammed series of change
- Maturation must be:
- Relatively resistant
- Sequential
- Universal
- Early development is elated to later development
- Not perfect correlation
- 4 Goals for studying development
- Describe
- Explain
- Predict
- Modify
- 11 Primary Characteristics
- 1. Lifelong
- Lifespan
- understanding all aspects of humans
- from conception to death (life span)
- 2. Consistent & Dynamic
- Stability vs Change
- happy kids, what when grown
- dynamic: always changing
- One Course w many sub-paths
- Cultural norms are not requirements
- Stability vs Change
- 3. Continuous & discrete
- Stages: overlapping or separate
- Everyone goes thru the same steps in same order
- Universal
- Sequential
- Relatively resistant
- Steps or Waves
- 4. Multidimensional
- Many things change at once
- 3 Domains
- A. Biosocial Domain
- How body affected
- genetics, nutrition & health
- motor movement, cognition, experience, breastfeeding
- B. Cognitive Domain
- Mental processes
- Knowledge & awareness
- Sensation & perceptions
- Language & memory
- C. Psychosocial Domain
- Culture & society
- Social skills
- Emotional characteristics
- 5. Multi-disciplinary
- Medicine & neuroscience
- Psychology & sociology
- Chemistry & biology
- Anthropology
- 6. Multi-directional
- Change is not linear
- failures & successes
- Both unpredictable & predictable
- morphogenesis = getting more organized
- apoptosis = programmed cell death
- Change is not linear
- 7. Multi-contextual
- Many contexts
- Flexible
- Rules don’t always apply; even in the same context
- Social context
- Rules change from place to place
- 8. Multi-cultural
- Each culture has own
- Traditions
- Values
- Tools
- Age-graded
- Drive when 16
- Married by 21
- History-graded
- Everyone get at same time
- Phone, TV, internet
- 9. Plastic
- Can change at any point in time
- Positively or negatively
- Great potential for change
- Usually don’t
- Can change at any point in time
- 10. Sensitive
- Sensitive periods
- Critical periods
- Summative & Existential
- Early experiences cause later problems
- 11. Interactive
- Person, heredity & environment
- Multiple interacting forces
- Active child
- Actively influence own develop
- Passive child
- At mercy of the environment
- 1. Lifelong
Terms
- age-graded influences
- behavior modification
- behaviorism
- chronosystem
- clinical interview
- clinical method (case study)
- cognitive-developmental theory
- cohort effects
- contexts
- continuous development
- correlation coefficient
- correlational design
- cross-sectional design
- dependent variable
- developmental cognitive neuroscience
- developmental science
- discontinuous development
- ecological systems theory
- ethnography
- ethology
- evolutionary developmental psychology
- exosystem
- experimental design
- history-graded influences
- independent variable
- information processing
- lifespan perspective
- longitudinal design
- macrosystem
- mesosystem
- microsystem
- naturalistic observation
- nature–nurture controversy
- nonnormative influences
- normative approach
- psychoanalytic perspective
- psychosexual theory
- random assignment
- resilience
- sensitive period
- sequential designs
- social learning theory
- sociocultural theory
- stage
- structured interview
- structured observation
- theory
Quiz
- 1. Development is both consistent and:
- a. uni-dimensional
- b. overlapping
- c. dynamic
- d. passive
- 2. Maturation must be:
- a. overlapping
- b. sequential
- c. reversible
- d. localized
- 3. Driving when you are 16 is an:
- a. age-graded tradition
- b. morphogenesis
- c. critical period
- d. bad idea
- 4. Children who actively influence own develop are:
- a. rapid processors
- b. segmented
- c. precocious
- d. active
- 5. Things can change at any point, so development is said to be:
- a. progressive
- b. contextual
- c. simplistic
- d. plastic
Answers
- 1. Development is both consistent and:
- a. uni-dimensional
- b. overlapping
- c. dynamic
- d. passive
- 2. Maturation must be:
- a. overlapping
- b. sequential
- c. reversible
- d. localized
- 3. Driving when you are 16 is an:
- a. age-graded tradition
- b. morphogenesis
- c. critical period
- d. bad idea
- 4. Children who actively influence own develop are:
- a. rapid processors
- b. segmented
- c. precocious
- d. active
- 5. Things can change at any point, so development is said to be:
- a. progressive
- b. contextual
- c. simplistic
- d. plastic
Summary
Bonus
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Saga of Dave
Dave, our fictional character, does not exist…yet. When he does, there are a lot of things we are going to want to know about him. All of the following characteristics will be a part of understanding Dave.
Before we get to Dave, let’s discuss development itself. There are five things you should know.
