HDFS201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Paul Baltes, Cuban Missile Crisis, Otto Staudinger

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

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But as humans, we have all traveled some common paths. Walked at about 1 year, engaged in fantasy play as a young child, and became more independent as a youth. Development the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span. The more you learn about them, the better you can deal with them. What your life will be like as you move through the adult years. Most development involves growth, but it also includes decline and dying. Examine the life span from the point of conception until the time when life. At least, life as we know it- ends. Characteristics of the life span perspective: -growth and development are dramatic during the first two decades of life. Development is not something that happens to only children and adolescents. Emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence (especially infancy), little or no change during adulthood, and decline in old age.