DEP 2000- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 53 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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The field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the entire lifespan(lifelong process) (study of human development from conception to death) Identify interconnections between earlier events and later events. Specify biological, psychological, and envitonmental factors that shape individuals development (biopsychosocial) Genetic biological, psychological, and environmental factors that shape individuals development. Topical areas (approaches)in lifespan development (what developmentalists focus on) Physical development, cognitive development, personality development, social development. Development involving the bodys physical make up, including the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food, drink and sleep. (influences behavior) Examples: genetics, fertilization, pregnancy, birth, pysical and motor development, puberty and menstration, disease. Development involving the ways that growth and change in intellectual (memory, problem solving, and intelligence) capabilities influence a persons behavior. Examples: information processing, problem solving, perceptual development, language development, moral development.
