Chapter 1 Flashcards
Views development as lifelong, multi everything and as a process that involves growth, maintenance and regulation of loss
life-span perspective
similar impacts on individuals in a particular age group
normative age-graded influences
impacts that don’t happen to everyone, and when they do occur they influence people in different ways (death of a parent when child is young; teenage pregnancy; winning the lottery
non-normative life events
the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all else of a particular group of people passed from generation to generation
Culture
government’s course of action to promote citizen’s welfare
social policy
percent of children living in poverty in us
22%
pattern of change that begins at conception and continues throughout life
development
produce changes in individual’s physical nature
biological processes
changes in thoughts intelligence and language
cognitive processes
changes in relationships, emotions, personality
socioemotional processes
degree to which early traits persist through life or change
stability-change issue
degree to which development involves gradual, cumulative change (continuity), or distinct stages (discontinuity)
continuity-dis continuity issue
describe development as primarily unconscious and colored by emotion
psychoanalytic theories
Development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, and plastic; co construction of biological cultural and individual factors
(some) characteristics of the lifespan perspective
biological, cognitive, and socioemotional
three conceptions of lifespan spectate
