LIFE-SPAN:OVERVIEW

DEVELOPMENT What is “development?” How do you define it?

WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT? Gain some insight about your own

development Know more about what you face as you

continue your own development Learn more about your peers & your caregivers

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE?

Development is:Lifelong - you never stop

developingMultidimensional – you grow in

more than one wayContextual – the place you are in

age influenceshistory influenceslife events

WHAT ARE THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES? Biological, Cognitive, & Socioemotional

Biological Processes

(Physical Development)

Cognitive Processes

(Psychological Dev)

Socioemotional Processes

(Relationship Skills)

DEVELOPMENTAL PERIODS Periods of Development

Prenatal Period Infancy Early Childhood Middle and Late Childhood Adolescence Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood Late Adulthood

WHAT ARE THE 4 CONCEPTIONS OF AGE? Chronological Age

The age you are now Biological Age

Physical age Psychological Age

Mental age Social Age

Ability to make friends w/peers & non-peers

DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES Nature and Nurture Stability and Change Continuity and Discontinuity

Preoperational Stage:The child begins to use words & images to explain their world. These words & images reflect increased symbolic thinking and go beyond the connection of sensory information and physical action.

Formal Operational StageThe adolescent reasons in more abstract idealistic & logical ways.

SENSORIMOTOR STAGE:The infant constructs an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with physical actions: progressing from reflexive, instinctual action at birth to the beginning of symbolic thought toward end of the stage.

Concrete Operational Stage:The child can reason logically about concrete (real) events & classify objects into different sets.

11–15 YEARS of

age through adulthood

Birth to 2 years of age

2 to 7 years of age

7 to 11 years of age

What Are Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development?

ERIKSON’S PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY 8 stages of development Psychosocial crisis at each stage The stages:

Trust Versus Mistrust (First Year) Autonomy Versus Shame and Doubt (1-3 years) Initiative Versus Guilt (3-5 years) Industry Versus Isolation (6 years – puberty) Identity Versus Identity Confusion (10-20 years) Intimacy Versus Isolation (20s, 30s) Generativity Versus Stagnation (40s, 50s) Integrity Versus Despair (60s onward)