Human development
is the scientific study
of
age-related
changes in:
–Behavior
–Thinking
–Emotion
–Personality
Original Sin Theory
–Augustine of Hippo
–Developmental
outcomes
- This means that they are born with a built-in urge to do bad things and to disobey God. It is an important doctrine within the Roman Catholic Church.
The blank slate
–John Locke
–Developmental outcomes
Innate goodness
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
–Developmental outcomes
Scientific theory of human development proposed by Charles Darwin
- Made early scientific theories
–First organized study
of human
development
–Evolution
–Baby biographies
G. Stanley Hall
- Made early scientific theories
–First scientific study of child development
Arnold Gesell
- Made early scientific theories
–Systematic description of children across domains,
particularly in the first 5 years of life
Paul Baltes
- Lifespan development
–Multi-contextual nature of development
–Plasticity
–Interdisciplinary perspective and research
Domains of development :
–Physical domain
–Cognitive domain
–Social domain
–Categorizing age-related changes
Ending and beggining milestone of Prenatal
Conception to Birth
Ending and beggining milestone of infancy
Birth to language
Ending and beggining milestone of Early childhood
Language to school entrance
Ending and beggining milestone of late childhood
School entrance to puberty
Ending and beggining milestone of adolesence
Puberty to attainment of culturally defined early adulthood
Ending and beggining milestone of late childhood of Early adulthoode
Attainment of culturally
defined adulthood to
Middle adulthood Attainment of culturally
defined mid-life, typically
age 40
Ending and beggining milestone of late childhood of middle adulthood
Attainment of culturally
defined mid-life, typically
age 40 to Attainment of culturally
defined late adulthood,
typically age 60
Death
Qualitative changes in kind
or type:
- Normative age-graded
universal changes
–Normative history-
graded changes
–Non-normative changes
Children and adolescents
in the great depression would be an example of what effect?
The cohort effect
Elder; Berkeley/Oakland Growth Study
–Younger versus older cohorts
