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Why do we study Human Development?

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Describe, explain, predict, and intervene

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What do we study in Human Development?

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Patterns of change that begins at conception and continues throughout the lifespan (growth and decline)

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What is Human Development?

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Scientific study of the systematic processes of change and stability throughout the human life span.

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Emphasizes that development is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, contextual, and multidisciplinary.

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Baltes’ Life-Span Perspective

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German psychologist, a leading expert on lifespan development and aging, developed one of the approaches to studying development

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Baltes

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Life-span Perspective views Development as

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lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic,

multidisciplinary, and contextual.

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Life-Span Perspective involves

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growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss

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Periods of the life-span; importance of each period

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Development is Lifelong

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Interaction of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional factors.

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Development is multidimensional

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Development of a particular domain does not occur in a strictly linear (growth and loss)

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Development is multi-directional

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Development is influenced by

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biology, culture, and individual

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Individuals allocate resources accordingly in order to maximize growth and regulate losses.

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Development involves changing resource allocation

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The Capacity for Change

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Development is Plastic

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Specific time when an event (or its absence) has specific impact on development

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Critical periods

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Developmental timing when child is particularly responsive to certain experiences

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Sensitive Periods

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What are the multiple contexts of Development?

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  • Family, School Work,
  • Socioeconomic Status (SES)
  • Culture
  • Historical Time
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Describe the Biological, Cognitive, and Socio Emotional Model (See

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Describe the Biological, Cognitive, and Socio Emotional Model (See Picture for Reference: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/domains-human-development/)

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Bi-directional Intertwined

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Why is the pattern of change complex?

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Because it is the product of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional process.

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Biological & social influences that are similar for individuals in a particular age group

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Normative age-graded influences

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Influences associated with historical context common to people in the same historical generation

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Normative history-graded influences

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Occurrences that are not common to most people, which have a major impact on one’s life

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Non-Normative Influences

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Debate about whether development is primarily influenced by nature or nurture

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Nature and Nurture

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Organism’s biological inheritance

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Nature

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Environmental Experiences

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Nurture

26
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If individuals tend to maintain their relative rank in a behavior (i.e., high or low in relation to others)

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Stable

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individuals tend to change in relative rank in a behavior

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Unstable

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If the phenomenon increases or decreases over time; gradual and incremental
Quantitative change: number, amount, size

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Continuous

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If the phenomenon changes in a fundamental, transformational way over time; abrupt or uneven
Qualitative change: kind, structure, complexity, organization

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Discontinuous

30
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the interaction between the child’s physical and genetic abilities and the child’s experiences created knowledge and unterstanding children create or construct their own understanding of the world

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Piaget and Constructivism

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People make decisions about behavior based on external controls to choosing behavior based on internal standards and principles

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KOHLBERG and MORAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY

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development is influenced by their culture
learning is shaped by their social experiences and interactions with and expectations from people (social context) around them

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VYGOTSKY and SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY

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chidlren’s development can be understood only in the context of political, social, legal, and economic systems - nested layers around the child

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BRONFENBRENNER and ECOLOGICAL THEORY

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basic attitudes and development are formed as individuals go through stages and challenges to form values

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Erikson and Psychosocial Theory

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behaviors are changed as a result of consequences

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SKINNER and BEHAVIORIST THEORY

36
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The number of years that have elapsed since birth, and experts argue that this is a crude index of experience.

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Chronological Age

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A person’s age in terms of biological health, and determining this involves knowing the functional capacities of an individual’s vital organs. The younger one’s biological age, the longer one is expected to live

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Biological age

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An individual’s adaptive capacities compared with other individual’s of the same chronological age.

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Psychological age

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refers to connectedness with others and the social roles individuals adopt.

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Social Age

40
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time frame in a person’s life that is characterized by certain features

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developmental period

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Prenatal

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Conception to Birth

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Infancy

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18-24 months

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Early Childhood

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3-5 Years

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Middle & Late Childhood

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6 - 10/11 years

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Adolescence

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10-12 to 18-21 years

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Early Adulthood

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20s and 30s

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Early Adulthood

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20s and 30s

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Middle Adulthood

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40s and 50s

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Late Adulthood

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60s-70s to death

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First Age

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Childhood to Adolescence

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Second Age

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Prime adulthood, ages 20 through 59

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Third Age

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Approximately 60 to 79 years

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Fourth Age

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Approximately 80 years and older

54
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Changes in one’s relationships with others, changes in emotions, as well as changes in personality

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SOCIOEMOTIONAL processes

55
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enable developmental changes in one’s thoughts, intelligence, and language

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Cognitive Processes

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produce physical or physiological changes, such as genes from our parents, the development of our brain, height and weight gains, hormonal changes, health decline, and so on.

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Biological Processes

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