the science that seeks to understand how and why people of all ages and circumstances change or
remain the same over time -
☑️ science of human development
What are the basic contours of human development? -
☑️ multicultural multicontextual multidirectional multidisciplinary plastic and life long
Human development depends on patterns of behavior that are passed on from one generation to the
next. These patterns of behavior can come from one's ethnic group, residents in a certain region, or
people in the same neighborhood. -
☑️ multicultural
Human development does not simply take place in one context but depends on many different
contexts, including physical surroundings, family, social economic -
☑️ multicontextual
a person's position in society as determined by income occupation education and place of residence
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☑️ socioeconomic system
human development has gains and losses as people age, at every stage; they have periods of great
growth and periods of little or no growth -
☑️ multidirectional
We must look to many disciplines to fully understand human development, including psychology,
sociology, biology, history, medicine, political science, and many more, because humans develop
simultaneously in many domains, contexts, and cultures -
☑️ multidisciplinary
Human Development can be molded depending on one's environment even though there is a certain
degree of one's development that is inherited biologically. Basically development is connected with
prior events but is also open to change (nature vs nurture) ( change over time) -
☑️ plastic
human development takes into account all phases of life ( infancy, early middle childhood
adolescence young adult etc) not just adult hood or child hood -
☑️ life long
a time when a particular type of growth must happen (in body or behavior). If the critical period
passes without the growth, the person will never grow in that way. -
☑️ critical period
a time when a certain type of development is most likely to happen and happens most easily. If that
development does not occur, it can still occur later -
☑️ sensitive period
a group of people who are born at about the same time and thus move through life together,
experiencing the same historical events and cultural shifts at about the same age. -
, ☑️ cohort
a theory of human development that holds that irrational unconscious drives and motives often
originating in childhood underlie human behavior -
☑️ psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory
what are Freud's psychosexual stages of development? -
☑️ oral anal phallic latency genital
birth-18mo: infants experience pleasure from stimulus of the mouth lips or oral activities (sucking) -
☑️ oral stage
18mo- 3yo: child focuses on anus and elimination functions -
☑️ anal stage
3yo-6yo: child's pleasure focuses on the genitals -
☑️ phallic stage
6yo-12yo: child represses sexual interest and develops cognitive, social and intellectual skills -
☑️ latency stage
12yo- death: adolescence triggers reemergence of sexual impulses -
☑️ genital stage
what did Erikson's stages of psychosocial development consist of -
☑️ he recognized 2 polarities even though many different outcomes are possible
infant-18mo: developed when care givers provide reliability care and affection -
☑️ trust vs mistrust
18mo-3yo: need to develop a sense of personal control over and independence -
☑️ autonomy vs shame and doubt
3yo-6yo: need to assert control over and power over environment (sense of purpose) -
☑️ initiative vs guilt
6yo-12yo: need to cope with new social and academic demands (sense of competence) -
☑️ industry vs inferiority
12yo-18yo: develop a sense of self and personal identity -
☑️ identity vs role confusion
18yo-40yo: form intimate and loving relationships -
☑️ intimacy vs isolation
40yo-65yo: create something or nurture something that will out last them -
☑️ generativity vs stagnation
65yo-death: need to look back on life and feel a sense of accomplishment -
☑️ integrity vs despair
a theory of human development that studies observable behavior; also called the learning theory -