Worksheets1. Life-Span Development
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
Life span psychology is a branch of psychology which studies life long process of change .
Life span psychology or developmental psychology
Development
Major objectives of developmental psychologist
Significance facts about development
•Systematic changes and continuities
–In the individual
–Between conception and death
•“Womb to Tomb”
•Three broad domains
–Physical, Cognitive, Psychosocial
Life span psychology or developmental psychology
Development
Major objectives of developmental psychologist
Significance facts about development
•To find out what are the common and characteristics age changes in appearance ,in behavior ,in interest
•To find out when these changes occur
•To find out what causes them
Life span psychology or developmental psychology
Development
Major objectives of developmental psychologist
Significance facts about development
•To find out how they influence behavior
•To find out whether they can or can not be predictable
•To find out whether they are universal or individual
Life span psychology or developmental psychology
Development
Major objectives of developmental psychologist
Significance facts about development
•Early foundations are critical
•Role of maturation and learning in development
•Development follows a definite and predictable patterns
•All individuals are different
•Each phase of development has characteristic behavior
Life span psychology or developmental psychology
Development
Major objectives of developmental psychologist
Significance facts about development
•Each phase of development has hazards
•Development is aided by stimulation
•Development is affected by cultural changes
•Social expectation for every stage of development.
Life span psychology or developmental psychology
Development
Major objectives of developmental psychologist
Significance facts about development
Theoretical Issues:
•To what extent are behaviors the result of experience or the result of biological processes such as maturation?
Nature versus nurture
Stability versus change
Continuity versus stages
Theoretical Issues:
•To what extent are behaviors constant over the life span?
Nature versus nurture
Stability versus change
Continuity versus stages
Theoretical Issues:
•Continuity view suggests that change is uniform and gradual.
•Stage theory suggests that change can be rapid with qualitatively different stages evident across the life span
Nature versus nurture
Stability versus change
Continuity versus stages
Historical Foundations:
____________________ believed that the long-term welfare of society depended on children’s being raised properly, but they differed in their approaches.
Both Plato and Aristotle
Plato
Aristotle
Historical Foundations:
________________ emphasized self-control and discipline.
Both Plato and Aristotle
Plato
Aristotle
Historical Foundations:
________________ believed that children are born with innate knowledge.
Both Plato and Aristotle
Plato
Aristotle
Historical Foundations:
________________ was concerned with fitting child rearing to the needs of the individual child.
Both Plato and Aristotle
Plato
Aristotle
Historical Foundations:
________________ believed that knowledge comes from experience.
Both Plato and Aristotle
Plato
Aristotle
Historical Foundations:
_______________ like Aristotle, saw the children are created (born) equal , and the mind of a newborn infant is like a piece of white paper as a tabula rasa and advocated first instilling discipline, then gradually increasing the child’s freedom.
•Child is products of their environment and upbringing
John Locke
Plato
Aristotle
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Historical Foundations:
•believed that children born with knowledge and ideas, which unfold naturally with age .
•Referred as Nativism
• (THEORY THAT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT RESULTS PRINCIPLY FROM INBORN PROCESSES THAT GUIDED THE EMERGENCE OF BEHAVIORS IN PREDICTABLE MANER )
John Locke
Plato
Aristotle
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Historical Foundations:
•He considered pioneer for guiding child rearing practices and educational psychology
•Child rearing practicing principle
•According to him child learning based on processes of exploration and discovery .
He argued that parents and society should give the child maximum freedom from the beginning
John Locke
Plato
Aristotle
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Educating the child
3 suggestions regarding educating the child that are promoted by many educators today
1)children should be exposed to new body of knowledge only after they display cognitive “readiness" to learn it
2)Children learn best when they are allowed to acquired ideas or information through their own discovery process
3)Educators should encourage a permissive style that allows children to follow their own natural inclinations
4)Educators should encourage a STRICT style that allows children to NOT follow their own natural inclinations
Historical Foundations:
Research-Based Approach:
________________ established a legacy of research conducted for the benefit of children and provided some of the earliest descriptions of the adverse effects that harsh environments can have on child development.
Social reform movements
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Historical Foundations:
Research-Based Approach:
_________________ inspired research in child development in order to gain insights into the nature of the human species
Social reform movements
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
•He conducted and published the first systematic studies of children in united state.
•He trained first generation of developmental researchers.
•He established several journal for reporting findings related to child development researches.
•He adopted the view that children's development RECAPITULATES THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES.
G. Stanley Hall (Researcher)
Freud
Watson
Arnold Gesell (Clinical Practioner)
________ argued that children’s behavior arises largely from the rewards and punishments that follow particular behaviors.
G. Stanley Hall (Researcher)
Freud
Watson
Arnold Gesell (Clinical Practioner)
•He established yale clinic of childe development and spent 50 years with studying development of typical child
•Disagree with HALL and limit the role of environment
•Believed on biological process of series of change
•Growth and motor skills should follow the predictable patterns
• (age can change but sequence can not change)
G. Stanley Hall (Researcher)
Freud
Watson
Arnold Gesell (Clinical Practioner)
Biological process that guide development
Maturation
NORMS
A sort of developmental timetable that describes the usual order in which children display various early behaviors and the age range within which each behavior normally appear.
Maturation
NORMS
Stages in the lifespan:
•Prenatal period
(conception to birth)
(birth to the end of 2nd week)
(end of the 2nd week to end of the 2nd year )
Stages in the lifespan:
•Infancy
(conception to birth)
(birth to the end of 2nd week)
(end of the 2nd week to end of the 2nd year )
Stages in the lifespan:
•Babyhood
(conception to birth)
(birth to the end of 2nd week)
(end of the 2nd week to end of the 2nd year )
Stages in the lifespan:
•Early childhood
(2 to 6 year)
(6 to or 10/12 years)
( 10/12, 13/14 to 18 years)
Stages in the lifespan:
•Late childhood
(2 to 6 year)
(6 to or 10/12 years)
( 10/12, 13/14 to 18 years)
Stages in the lifespan:
•Puberty or preadolescents
(2 to 6 year)
(6 to or 10/12 years)
( 10/12 to 13/14 years)
Stages in the lifespan:
•Adolescence
(13/14 to 18 years)
(18 to 40 years)
(40 to 60 years)
(60 year to death)
Stages in the lifespan:
•Early adulthood
(13/14 to 18 years)
(18 to 40 years)
(40 to 60 years)
(60 year to death)
Stages in the lifespan:
•Middle age
(13/14 to 18 years)
(18 to 40 years)
(40 to 60 years)
(60 year to death)
Stages in the lifespan:
•Old age
(13/14 to 18 years)
(18 to 40 years)
(40 to 60 years)
(60 year to death)
___________________ suggests that change is uniform and gradual.
Continuity View
Stages Theory
___________________ suggests that change can be rapid with qualitatively different stages evident across the life span
Continuity View
Stages Theory
