Chapter one Flashcards
Development
the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span
goals
- describe: to establish norms
- explain: why and how changes are occurring
- understand: anticipate and prepare
- modify/influence: to initiate positive changes for optimal development.
Characteristics of Life-Span Perspective
- development is lifelong
- Development is multidimensional
- development is Plastic
- Development is contextual
- development involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss
- development is a Co-Construction of Biology, Culture, and the Individual
Development is multidimensial
Three dimensions
a. biological/physical - growth, what’s the average growth, skills, nutrition, health factors
b. cognitive - intelligence, changes in thought, factors influence, language development
c. socioemotional - changes in relationships, personality, emotions
interdependency among the areas - they influence each other
development is plastic
has the capacity for change
development is contextual
context at which development is happening
development involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss
growth until about middle adulthood, after which maintenance
development is a co-construction of Biology, culture, and the individual
interaction of all those working together
nature and nurture
biological inheritance vs. environmental experiences
stability and change
the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist through life or change
continuity and discontinuity
the degree to which development involves either gradual, cumulative change (continuity) or distinct stages (discontinuity).
Theories of Development
- the way we explain development depends on the way we view the nature of human beings
- no one theory of human development is universally accepted, and no one theory explains all facets of development
theory
an interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and make predictions.
Psychoanalytic theories
(Freud’s Psychosexual theory and Erikson’s Psychosocial theory)
-development is primarily unconscious and heavily covered by emotion. Early childhood experience with parents extensively shape development.
Freud’s Theory
Three structures of personality: Id, Ego and Super Ego.
Id
present at birth, totally unconscious, pleasure principle
Ego
age 1, mostly conscious, partly unconscious, reality principle, decision making center, logic, rational, ego’s job to satisfy Id in socially acceptable ways
Super Ego
age 3, mostly unconscious & partly conscious, operates from the morality principle, all of your knowledge right & wrong (conscience) rewards you with pride or punishes with guilt
three levels of consciousness
conscious
subconscious
unconscious
psychosexual stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital)
- conflicts occur in stages where pleasure shifts from one body zone to another
- too much or too little gratification in any stage cause fixation.
fixation
an arrest in development
oral
from birth to 1 1/2, source of gratification is mouth - sucking, chewing, increase security and relieves tension
anal
from 1 1/2 to 3, source of pleasure- process of elimination (anus)- developing independence, potty training