HDFS 2113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: First Age, Fourth Age, Information Processing Theory
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19 Mar 2017
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Life-Span Development
Introduction (CH.1)
The importance of studying life span development
• Prepares us to take responsibility for children
• Gives us insight about our own lives
• Gives us knowledge about what our lives will be like as we age
Vocab To Know
• Development – pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through
the life span
• Life-span perspective – Involves growth, maintenance, and regulation
o Is constructed through biological, sociocultural, and individual factors
working together
• Need to be familiar with these definitions because they will be used frequently
throughout the course.
• Note: the different influences on the life-span perspective: biological, sociocultural,
and individual. These are distinct but also related in each stage of development.
Characteristics of the life-span perspective
• Development:
o Is lifelong
o Is multidimensional
o Is multidirectional
o Is plastic
o Is multidisciplinary
o Is contextual
o Involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss
o Is a co-construction of biology, culture, and the individual
Types of contextual influences
• Normative age-graded influences – similar for individuals in a particular age group
• Normative history-graded influences – common to people of a particular generation
because of historical circumstances
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