FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Latency Stage, Oral Stage, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

Human development way people grow and change across the life span; includes people"s biological, cognitive, psychological and social functioning. Culture total pattern of a group"s customs, beliefs, art and technology. Globalization increasing connections between different parts of the world in trade, travel, migration and communication. The most striking demographic feature of the human population is the sheer size of it: 7 billion threshold was surpassed just 12 years later, in early 2011. Nearly all population growth in the decades to come will take place in the economically developing countries. Nearly all wealthy countries are expected to decline in population during this period and beyond, because they have current fertility rates that are well below replacement rate. 2050, except for the us which is expected to increase from 310 million people currently, to 439 million people by 2050: us is following different path for 2 reasons: Has tfr of 2. 0, which is slightly below replacement rate of 2. 1, but higher than.