Fundamental Questions of Development Flashcards
Range of the Lifespan Perspective
Conception to Death
6 Characteristics of Lifespan Perspective
All MULTI
1) Directional
2) Contextual
3) Dimensional
4) Cultural
5) Disciplinary
6) Plasticity
What is Multicontextual?
We are influenced by the context we grow up in
What is Multidimensional?
Growth and decline can be biopsychoenvironmental
5 Stereotypes of Ageing
1) Unproductive
2) Disengagement/withdrawn
3) Inflexibility/inability to adapt to change
4) Senility
5) Physical ailment
4 Fundamental Questions of Ageing
1) Nature vs. Nurture
2) Stability vs. Plasticity
3) Universal vs. Culturally determined
4) Continuous vs. Discontinuous
Universal (Fundamental Question of Ageing)
It is culture-free and the developmental process is common to all children such as facial expressions
Culturally Determined (Fundamental Question of Ageing)
Development cannot be separated from culture for example when we learn to walk is different among cultures
Continuous (Fundamental Question of Ageing)
We develop and improve the same skill and this skill always existed
Discontinuous (Fundamental Question of Ageing)
New and different skills
4 Developmental Theories
1) Mechanistic
2) Psychodynamic
3) Organic/Biological
4) Recent
3 Characteristics of Mechanistic Theory of Development
1) Observable environmental influences
2) Behaviourism (Skinner)
3) Social Learning Theory (Bandura)
3 Characteristics of Psychodynamic Theory of Development
1) Personality development related to motivational energy
2) Freud (psychosexual)
3) Erikson (psychosocial)
Organic/Biological Theory of Development
Focus on brain development
4 Recent Theories into Development
1) Neo-Piagetian
2) Information-processing
3) Evolutionary Theory
4) Systems Approach
