E PSY 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anal Stage, Psychosexual Development, Psychoanalytic Theory

• School: SUNY Albany
• Department: Educational Psychology & Methodology
• Course: E PSY 224
• Professor: Ms. Shaw

Document Summary

Lifespan development: is the field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the entire lifespan. Physical development: involving the body"s physical makeup, including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food, drink, and sleep. Cognitive development: involving the ways that growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence a person"s behavior. Personality development: involving the ways that the enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from another change over the lifespan. Social development: the way in which individuals" interactions with others and their social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life. Continuous change: gradual development in which achievements at one level build on those of previous levels. Discontinuous change: development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stages.