GU-LC Theorists and theory's Flashcards
Development is considered as the systematic changes and continuities in?
An individual that occurs between conception and death
What are the 3 broad domains of Lifespan development?
- Physical (grow/decline and influences)
- Cognitive (how we learn and think)
- Psychosocial (emotional and social)
What are the phases of the lifespan?
- Prenatal
- Infancy/Toddlerhood
- Early Childhood
- Middle Childhood
- Adolescence
- Early Adulthood
- Middle Adulthood
- Late Adulthood
and End of life
Western cultures define lifespan by ____ and other cultures by _____ ?
- Western = Age
- Other = Capacity (Ability to do something)
Knowledge of Lifespan Development has come from?
Our desire to understand who we are and how we become that way. Apply knowledge to improve lives
Lifespan is a field of study that explores what?
- Patterns of stability
- Continuity
- Growth and changes (during a person’s life)
Name 3 of the many disciplines that apply research methods to develop theories about human development?
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Anthropology
Multidisciplinary Research (Many ways of looking at one phenomenon)
Developmental theory is?
- A set of rules
- Statements that describe, explain and predicts various aspects of development
- Across 3 developmental domains
What are the 2 main purposes of theory?
- Helps to organise and give meaning to diverse observations of people (Labs, experiments etc.)
- Provides practical action for guiding and promoting development
Theory can also be influenced by?
Historical and cultural beliefs and values
ie. internet/screens vs pen/drawing and fast-food vs fresh-food
What are the basic issues of Lifespan Development through the years?
Is development…
- Continuous or discontinuous?
- Universal for all people or are there many possible courses of development?
- Genetic or environmental or both?
Continuous is…
(Quantitative) - A gradual building in skills and achievements over time (i.e. crease in height)
Discontinuous is…
(Qualitative) - A gradual process where development occurs in stages or steps, where development is different from behaviour at earlier stages.
(i.e. Piaget’s -
Cognitive development and Erikson’s Psychosocial stages)
What are courses of development?
Many "different" courses... - Context - Cultures - Genes - Generations (Not universal)
Nature: the influence of heredity
- Emphasis on the process of maturation
- Biological development
Nurture: the influence of environment
Context and life experiences cause changes to the development pathway
