Component 1 (Human Lifespan Development) Flashcards
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When is the Infancy life stage?
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0-2 years
2
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When is the Early Childhood life stage?
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3-8 years
3
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When is the Adolescence life stage?
A
9-18 years
4
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When is the Early Adulthood life stage?
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19-45 years old
5
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When is the Middle Adulthood life stage?
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46-65 years old
6
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When is the Later Adulthood life stage?
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65+ years old
7
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Physical changes during infancy
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- Gross motor skills develop (start to control larger muscles in their body)
- Fine motor skills develop (start to control smaller muscles in their body)
- Age of two: do things such as walk, hold a spoon and point
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Intellectual changes during infancy
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- Newborn responds to the world through their senses
- Age of two: ability to think has developed hugely, can grasp basic concepts
- Most important: development of language
9
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Emotional changes in infancy
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- Bonds with those who take care of them
- Needs to form a strong attachment with its main carer and receive love and affection in a positive way.
- Bond helps create a sense of security + influences the infants development
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Social changes in infancy
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- Early relationships formed in infancy act as a model for future relationships
- Early infancy, infant plays alone (solitary play) and isnt able to think of others.
- By age of 2 the infant has learned a lot about how to interact with others
- Age of 2, infant can play alongside others (parallel play) and process of being able to share starts to develop
- At first main relationship = parents. Later extends to siblings, other family members etc
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Physical changes in Early Childhood
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- Age of 5: Most children can walk up stairs unaided, can hold a pencil to draw or write
- Age of 8: learns to catch and throw, develop a good sense of balance and can use a bat and ball
- Growth spurt
- Can run, skip and balance
- Can catch and throw, has hand-eye coordination
- Fine motor skill development
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Intellectual changes in Early Childhood
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- End of early childhood: Huge change in intellectual ability
- Able to think about things (even if its mainly only from their viewpoint, egocentrism) not just experiencing through senses
- Communication and language development improve greatly: use full sentences, can count, starts to sequence and order events
- Learn to read and write
- Begin to organise and classify objects and thoughts
- Begin to work out solutions to problems
- Learn by asking questions and by watching the behaviour of others
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Emotional changes in Early Childhood
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- Experience a new range of feelings and will learn how to handle them
- Learn how to work with others, share and cooperate and listening to others
- Experience emotions such as love, hate, fear and jealousy
- Development of personality
- Beginning to emphasise
- Still very self centered, temper tantrum if they dont get their own way
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Social changes in Early Childhood
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- Development of friendships
- Common to have gender based friendships
- Social play - cooperative play begins
- Listening to others
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Physical changes in Adolescence
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- Growth spurts
- Capable of reproduction
- Secondary sexual characteristics
- Girls: menstrual cycle, growth of breasts, growth of body hair, rounded body shape
- Boys: penis growth, sperm reproduction, growth of body hair, lower voice, growth of muscle
