Lifespan Development: Areas Of Lifespan Development Flashcards
What are the differences between physical and psychological developments?
Psychical developments can be directly observed,
Psychological developments are mental processes which cannot be directly observed, only inferred through behaviours.
Describe physical development
Bodily development of the brain and nervous system, bones and muscles, motor skills, and the hormonal changes of puberty and menopause.
Describe social development
Changes in relationships, including the ability to form close relationships and interact with others
Describe cognitive development
Changes in mental abilities including thinking, perception, memory, language, moral reasoning, problem solving and decision making.
Describe emotional development.
Changes in how we perceive and express feelings, and our ability to perceive, understand and use emotions
Which areas of lifespan development are physical and which areas are psychological?
Physical: physical development
Psychological: social development, cognitive development, emotional development
Define: continuous development
A gradual and ongoing developmental change, with behaviour in an earlier stage providing the basis of skills and abilities required for a later stage
Define: discontinuous development
Developmental change that occurs in distinct and separate stages throughout the lifespan, with development of certain abilities having an identifiable start and end point.
Define: quantitative changes
A change in the amount of thinking, feeling or behaving in development
Eg. Number of words spoken in relation to age
Define: qualitative changes
A change in the quality, kind of type of thinking, feeling or behaving that makes the individual different from what they were before
Eg. Knowledge of abstract concepts
