Résumés Experience Human Development

These Lecture notes cover the physical human development from a psychological perspective from birth-three years of age.

These lecture notes cover the psychological research methods often used in studying human and lifespan development.

These class notes give a brief overview of fetal development from conception to birth from a psychology standpoint.

Lecture notes for chapter 1 of Developmental Psychology

theory - Answer coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain, and predict data hypothesis - Answer possible explanations for phenomena, used to predict the outcome of research mechanistic model - Answer Locke: model that views human development as a series of predictable responses to stimuli - do not operate of their own will, react automatically to physical forces or inputs organismic model - Answer model that views human development as interna...

Personality - Answer Relatively consistent blend of emotions, temperament, thought, and behavior that makes a person unique. Psychosocial development - Answer Personality development that are intertwined with social relationships Emotions - Answer Subjective responses to experience (sadness, joy, fear) Emotional reactions - Answer Develop during infancy. They are a basic element of personality. Emotions are associated with - Answer Psychological changes and behavioral ...

adolescence - Answer development transition between childhood and adulthood entailing major physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes puberty - Answer process by which a person attains sexual maturity and the ability to reproduce primary sex characteristics - Answer organs directly related to reproduction, which enlarge and mature during adolescence secondary sex characteristics - Answer physiological signs of sexual maturation that do not involve the sex organs adole...

Thanatology - Answer Study of death and aging Hospice care - Answer Warm, personal, patient-centered and family-centered care for a person with a terminal illness Palliative care/comfort care - Answer Care aimed at relieving pain and suffering and allowing the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and dignity. Terminal drop/terminal decline - Answer A frequently observed decline in cognitive abilities near the end of life. Bereavement - Answer Loss, due to death, of...

representational systems - Answer in neo-Piagetian terminology, the third stage in development of self-definition, characterized by breadth, balance, and the integration and assessment of various aspects of the self industry vs inferiority - Answer Erikson's fourth stage of psychosocial development, in which children must learn the productive skills their culture requires or else face feelings of inferiority internalizing behaviors - Answer behaviors by which emotional problems...

These lecture notes cover different psychological theories and perspectives surrounding human and lifespan development.

theory - Answer coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain, and predict data hypothesis - Answer possible explanations for phenomena, used to predict the outcome of research mechanistic model - Answer Locke: model that views human development as a series of predictable responses to stimuli - do not operate of their own will, react automatically to physical forces or inputs organismic model - Answer model that views human development as interna...

Personality - Answer Relatively consistent blend of emotions, temperament, thought, and behavior that makes a person unique. Psychosocial development - Answer Personality development that are intertwined with social relationships Emotions - Answer Subjective responses to experience (sadness, joy, fear) Emotional reactions - Answer Develop during infancy. They are a basic element of personality. Emotions are associated with - Answer Psychological changes and behavioral ...

representational systems - Answer in neo-Piagetian terminology, the third stage in development of self-definition, characterized by breadth, balance, and the integration and assessment of various aspects of the self industry vs inferiority - Answer Erikson's fourth stage of psychosocial development, in which children must learn the productive skills their culture requires or else face feelings of inferiority internalizing behaviors - Answer behaviors by which emotional problems...

self-actualization - Answer the full realization of human potential *Maslow individuation - Answer Jungs' term for emergence of the true self through balancing or integration of conflicting parts of the personality generativity vs stagnation - Answer Erikson's seventh stage of psychosocial development, in which the middle-aged adult develops a concern with establishing, guiding, and influencing the next generation or else experiences stagnation * virtue is Care genrativ...

human development - Answer Scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the human life span. life-span development - Answer Concept of human development as a lifelong process, which can be studied scientifically. physical development - Answer Growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills, and health. cognitive development - Answer Pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning, attention, memory, langu...

adolescence - Answer development transition between childhood and adulthood entailing major physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes puberty - Answer process by which a person attains sexual maturity and the ability to reproduce primary sex characteristics - Answer organs directly related to reproduction, which enlarge and mature during adolescence secondary sex characteristics - Answer physiological signs of sexual maturation that do not involve the sex organs adole...

Thanatology - Answer Study of death and aging Hospice care - Answer Warm, personal, patient-centered and family-centered care for a person with a terminal illness Palliative care/comfort care - Answer Care aimed at relieving pain and suffering and allowing the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and dignity. Terminal drop/terminal decline - Answer A frequently observed decline in cognitive abilities near the end of life. Bereavement - Answer Loss, due to death, of...

These Lecture notes cover the physical human development from a psychological perspective from birth-three years of age.