Lecture notes Unit 1: Human Lifespan and Development

Human Lifespan and
Development
Unit 1
Social development over all life
stages
Lifespan: The nature vs nurture debate
Infancy 0-2 Genetic factors that affect
 Crawling and growth development
Early childhood 3-8 Environmental factors that
 More growth affect development
 Personality development Social factors that affect
 More aware development
 Bigger social life Economic factors that affect
Adolescence 9-18 development
 More independence Major life events
 Driving Physical signs of aging
 Puberty Physiological signs of aging
 Learn how to control Societal signs of aging
emotions

Practitioners need to develop
Key terms
knowledge bases for working Growth: the process of
with every stage of life. increasing in size.
This unit will develop your Development: an event
knowledge and understanding constituting a new stage in a
of: changing situation.
 Patterns of growth and Development norms: assess
development whether age groups are
 Human health and well- developing skills at the same
being rate as their peers.
 Factors that affect Milestones: a significant stage
growth, development and or event in development of a
human health stage.
Gross motor skills: bigger
muscles of the body (arms,
Topics legs).
Physical development over all Fine motor skills: smaller
life stages muscles of the body (fingers,
Intellectual development over toes).
all life stages
Emotions development over all
life stages