The study of Human development

• ​definition

  Scientific study of the systematic processes of change and stability in prople.

  • ​scientific study
    

  • ​change and stability
    

• ​Basic concepts
  

  • ​Domains of development
    

    • ​Three domains are interrelated
      

    • ​Physical
      

      • ​body&brain

      • ​sensory capabilities
        

      • ​motor skills
        

      • ​health

    • ​Cognitive

      • ​learning

      • ​attention

      • ​memory

      • ​language

      • ​thinking

      • ​reasoning

      • ​creativity

    • ​Psychosocial

      • ​emotions

      • ​personality

      • ​social relationships
        

  • ​Periods of the life span
    

    • ​base on social construction
      

• ​Influences on development
  

  • ​Factors

    • ​Heredity

    • ​Environment

    • ​maturation

  • ​Contexts of development
    

    • ​Family

      • ​nuclear family
        

        • ​two-generational kinship
          

        • ​dominant in Western societies
          

      • ​extended family
        

        • ​multigenerational network
          

        • ​more common in recent year
          

    • ​Socioeconomics status&Neighborhood
      

      • ​Main factors
        

        • ​Income

        • ​Education

        • ​Occupation

      • ​poverty-related risk
        

      • ​strengths&resilience factors
        

        • ​Found in low SES homes
          

    • ​Culture

      • ​definition

        A society's or a group's way of life.

      • ​All learned behavior
        

        • ​parents to children
          

    • ​Ethnicity

      • ​Ethnic group
        

      • ​Ethnic gloss
        

      • ​Race

    • ​Historical
      

      • ​Unique time
        

        unique time in which people live and grow up.

      • ​Experience

        experience tied to time and place.

  • ​Types

    • ​Normative influences
      

      • ​definition

        biological or environmental events that affect many or ost people in a society in similar ways.

      • ​Normative age-graded
        

        1)similar for an age group

        2)timimng of biological events is predictable

        • ​Ex:puberty

      • ​Normative history-graded
        

        events that shape attitudes of historical generation.

        • ​Ex:cohort

    • ​Non-normative influences
      

      • ​definition

        unusual events that have a major impact on individual's lives.

      • ​Atypical time
        

      • ​Atypical event
        

• ​The life-span development approach
  

  • ​Deve is lifelong
    

  • ​Deve is multidimensional
    

  • ​Deve is multidirectional
    

  • ​Relative influences
    

  • ​chaning resource allocations
    

  • ​plasticity

  • ​influenced by historical and cultural context