Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan

Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan Development is Multidirectional - answerThroughout life, some dimensions or components of a dimension expand and others shrink. Example; When one language is acquired early in development, the capacity for acquiring second and third languages decreases later in development, especially after early childhood. During late adulthood, older adults might become wiser because they have more experience than younger adults to draw upon to guide their decision making, but they perform more poorly on tasks that require speed in processing information. Development is Multideminsional - answerDevelopment has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions. Even within a dimension, there are many components. For example, attention, memory, abstract thinking, speed of processing information, and social intelligence are just a few of the components of the cognitive dimension. No matter what your age might be, your body, mind, emotions, and relationships are changing and affecting each other. Development is plastic - answerPlasticity means the capacity for change. Development is Lifelong - answerIn the life-span perspective, early adulthood is not the endpoint of development; rather, no age period dominates development. Researchers increasingly study the experiences and psychological orientations of adults at different points in their lives. Development is Multidisciplinary - answerPsychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and medical researchers all share an interest in unlocking the mysteries of development through the life span. Development is Contextual - answerAll development occurs within a context, or setting. Contexts include families, schools, peer groups, churches, cities, neighborhoods, university laboratories, countries, and so on. Each of these settings is influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors. Nature vs. Nurture - answer"Nature" refers to genetic factors involved in development (heredity) "Nurture" refers to environmental factors and experiences involved in development Continuity vs. Discontinuity - answer"Continuity" theory says that development is a gradual, continuous process. "Discontinuity" theory says that development occurs in a series of distinct stages. Stability vs. Change - answerDebate about whether we become older renditions of our early experience (stability) or whether we develop into someone different from who we were at an earlier point in development (change). Frued's Psychosexual Theory of development - answerTheory that as children grow up, their focus of pleasure and sexual impulses shifts from the mouth to the anus and eventually to the genitals. As a result, we go through five stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Our adult personality is determined by the way we resolve conflicts between sources of pleasure at each stage and the demands of reality. Erik Erikson's stages of Psychosocial development - answerPyschosocial theory that proposes eight stages of human development. Each stage consists of a unique developmental task that confronts individuals with a crisis that m