DEP3054 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lindsay Lohan, Natalie Portman, Nuclear Family
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What is developmental psychology: developmental psychology is the scientific study of the processes of stability and lawful change in people, lifespan development, continuity and change across the entire lifespan, the study of continuity and change. Developmental research concerns issues of continuity and change. Why study human development: four goals of developmental psychology. Lifespan development the concept that human development is a lifelong process. Periods of the life span: a social construction: subjective. Adolescence only recently introduced in industrial societies. Development is multidirectional: multidirectional: balance of gains and losses. Adolescence: continued physical growth, capability to learn languages declines. Adulthood: maximize gains, minimize losses: example: early language acquisition, development involves changing resource allocations. Timing: one of the goals of lifespan is to describe universal developmental processes, however, individual differe(cid:374)(cid:272)es every(cid:271)ody"s different! Why: researchers aim to understand influences of development. Over time, place to place: socioeconomic status (ses): Combination of social & economic factors (income, education, and occupation: ethnicity & culture.
