HDFS201 Lecture 10: Notes

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS201
• Professor: Palkovitz Rob

Document Summary

Development 1) the act, process, or result of developing. Studying human development: how people change, how people remain the same over time, multidisciplinary study, why you are the way you are, what you can reasonably expect to change, factors that influence those changes. In relationships: across all of life, conception to death. Development is essentially systematic change over time that is functionally significant and relatively permanent: across bio-psycho-social-spiritual domains of development. Why you are the way you are: things that have shaped you. Conditions: i moved a lot, judaism, sleep-away camp, public school, financial situation. Events: injuries, traveling, loss of a loved one, playing soccer, choosing a major. Development takes place in contexts: multiple intersecting contexts that we often associate with diversity, what are different dimensions of diversity, race, class, gender, sexual preference, cohort, culture, health, ability, personality, family form and family functioning, educational attainmet.