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Characteristics of Lifespan Development

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  • Needs
  • Problems
  • Possibilities that mark individuals’ progress from birth
    to death.
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Chronological Age

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  • Important to understand change over Lifespan
  • Central to lifespan developmental psychology
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Rules and Expectations About Age Related Behaviours

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  • Expectations about how people should behave at certain ages
  • According to Culture, Historical periods and Laws
  • Neugarten, 1973
  • Social Clock - Cultural Norms
  • Punishments for Violations
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What do Developmentalists Do?

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  • Study behaviour, cognition and personality based on age of individuals
  • from birth to old age
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Three Age Related Changes

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  1. Universal
    • Biologically based so shared
  2. Group Specific
    • Culturally Based
    • Historically Based
    • Cohort Effects shared by individuals in age group (Baby Boomers)
  3. Individual Differences
    • Unique, unshared genetic and environmental influences
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Development is . . .

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  • Lifelong
  • Multidimensional
  • Multidirectional
  • Plastic - Has capacity for change
  • Contextual
  • Involves Growth, Maintenance and regulation of loss
  • Co-constructed biology, culture and the individual
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Three designs to study Age Related Changes

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  • Cross-sectional Designs
  • Longitudinal Designs
  • Sequential Designs
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Cross-Sectional Designs

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  • Study groups of individuals of different ages eg: 18-24 years or 53 and older
  • Advantages
    • Fast and Inexpensive
    • Can reveal age related change
  • Disadvantages
    • Reveals nothing about individual change over time
    • Each participant is only tested once
    • Cohort Effect - change may be due to another effect apart from age
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Longitudinal Designs

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  • Follows same individuals over a period of time - 7-Up documentary or Grant study of Harvard Men
  • Advantages
    • Demonstrate sequences of change
    • Show individual change or consistency
    • Avoid cohort problem
  • Disadvantages
    • Costly
    • Practice effects
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Practice Effects

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  • Influences on test results when a test is taken more than once
  • Occurs when you take multiple practice SAT exams; practice can increase your overall score.
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Sequential Designs

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  • Combination of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Desigsn
  • Advantages
    • Describes age differences and age changes
    • Separate effects of age, cohort and time of measurement
    • Indicates whether developmental changes are experienced by all in a cohort
  • Disadvantages
    • Complex
    • Time Consuming
    • Expensive
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Six Methods to Collect Data when studying Age Related Change

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  • Case studies.
  • Interviews.
  • Observational studies.
  • Psychological tests.
  • Surveys.
  • Physiological measures.
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Case Study

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  • Detailed description of individuals being studied or treated
  • Used to formulate broader research hypotheses
  • Commonly used by clinicians, occasionally by researchers

eg: 7-Up or Psychoanalysis

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Interviews

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  • Detailed descriptions of behaviour from a group of individuals
  • Commonly used by qualitative researchers

eg: 7-Up, Piaget’s cognitive developent, Kohlberg’s moral development

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Observational Studies

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  • Researchers carefully and systematically observe and record behaviour without interfreing with behaviour
  • Naturalistic observation
  • Laboratory observation
    • eg: Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiments, Harlow’s Rhesus Monkeys
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Psychological Tests

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  • Measure & evaluate
    • Personality traits
    • Aptitude
    • Interests
    • Abilities
    • Values
  • Types of Psychological tests
    • Objective - NEO-Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae 1992)
    • Projective Personality Tests - Rorschach Inkblots
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Surveys

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  • Battery of questionairres
  • Useful when information needed from a large number of people
  • Can be conducted in person, on-line or over the telephone
  • Disadvantages
    • Volunteer Bias
    • Socially Desirable Responding
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Physiological Measures

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  • Increasingly being used to assess development at different points of the lifespan
  • Examples
    • Blood Tests
    • Skin Conductance
    • Neuroimaging
    • Electromagnetic waves used to consturct images of brain and biochemical activity
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Human Developmental Theories

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  • Psychoanalytic
  • Behavioral
  • Cognitive
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Psychoanalytic Theorists

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  • Sigmund Freud
  • Erik Erikson
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Behavioural Theorists

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  • Pavlov
  • Watson
  • Skinner
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Cognitive Theorists

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  • Piaget
  • Vygotsky
  • Kohlberg
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Freud’s Developmental Stages

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  • Oral stage - Birth to 1 Year
  • Anal stage - 1 Year to 3 Years
  • Phallic stage - 4 Years to 6 Years
  • Latency stage - 6 Years to 12 Years
  • Genital stage - Puberty onwards
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Erickson’s Stages of Developent

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  • Trust vs mistrust - birth to age 1
  • Autonomy vs doubt - age 1 to 3
  • Initiative vs guilt - age 3 to 5
  • Industry vs inferiority - age 6 to 12
  • Identity vs confusion - adolescence
  • Intimacy vs isolation - Early adulthood
  • Generativity vs stagnation - Middle adulthood
  • Integrity vs despair - Late adulthood
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Piaget's Stages of Intellectual Development
* Sensorimotor - Birth - age 2 * Pre-operational - age 2-7 * Concrete operational - age 7-11 * Formal operational - age 12 onwards
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Vygotsky's Stages of Social Develpment
* Imitative Learning * Internalisation of Learning * Collaborative Learning with Peers
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Kohlbergs Stages of Moral Development
* Preconventional Morality * Conventional Morality * Postconventional Morality
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Seven Paradoxes of Human Development
* Developmental v. Non developmental. * Continuity v. Discontinuity. * Biological (Nature) v. Environmental (Nurture). * Activity v. Passivity. * Cognitive v. Affective. * Macroscopic v. Microscopic. * General v. Particular.
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Four Primary Groups of Psychological Theories
* Psychodynamic * Freud, Erickson * Behaviourist * Skinner, Bandura * Cognitive * Piaget, Kohlberg * Biological * Chomsky, Bowlby
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Sigmund Freud
* Viewed newborns as driven by instincts, biological forces and unconscious motives * Divisions of the mind * Unconscious
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Freud - Divisions of the Mind
* **Id :** impulsive, irrational, selfish * **Ego :** Rational side of personality that try to find realistic ways of satisfying instincts, emerges in first 2 years * **Superego :** Moral values of parents, develops between 3 to 6 yrs, Purpose: finding socially/ethically acceptable outlets for id’s undesirable impulses.
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Freud Unconscious
* **Defense mechanisms:** Repression, Denial, Projection, Reaction Formation, Regression, Sublimation * **Dreams:** Expression of repressed desires or wishes
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Freud's Stages of Psychosocial Development
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Erik Erikson - 1902- 1994
* Psychosocial theory * Development occurs through resolution of eight crises * Crises are prompted by biological issue, but resolved socially * Eight stages of the lifespan * Placed more emphasis on development after adolescence * On contrast to Freud who emphasized personality developed within first five years
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Erik Erikson Stages of Psychosocial Development
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Erikson Psychosocial Theory
* Development occurs through resolution of eight crises * Crises are biological in nature but are resolved through social interactions * The eight crises are spread throughout a lifespan * Places emphasis on stages of life beyond adolescence * Contrasts Freud who says personality is developed within the first five years
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Erikson's Stages of Developmental Theory
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Evaluation of Psychodynamic Theory
* Strengths * Emphasised uniqueness of individuals * Qualitative stage transitions underlying development * Inspired research on social and emotional development * Introduced the notion of the unconscious mind * Limitations * Too much emphasis on sexual underpinnings by Freud * Limited methods used (case studies) * Ideas too vague to be tested empirically ie: psychosexual stages, ego functioning
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Behaviourist Theories
* Ivan Pavlov: 1849 - 1936 * John Watson: 1878 - 1958 * B.F. Skinner: 1904 - 1990 * Albert Bandura: 1925 - current
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Behaviourism Primary Constructs
* Classical Conditioning - Associations * Operant Conditioning - Reinforcement * Observational Learning * Self Efficacy - Learn through self beleif and confidence
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Describe Behaviourist Theories
* Do not view development as going through universal stages * Development occurs gradually through lifelong learning * Focuses on mechanisms of learning not on describing the "normal" course of development * Learning Theories are precise and testable * BUT places too little importance on the role of genetics and maturational processes.
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Cognitive Theories
* Development through thinking * Jean Piaget: 1896 - 1980 * Lev Vygotsky: 1896 - 1934 * Lawrence Kohlberg: 1927 - 1987
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Jean Piaget - 1986-1980
* Cognitive development proceeds through a series of distinct stages . * Stages experienced in the same order and at the same age * Abilities in each new stage building on abilities from previous stages. * Movement through the stages is prompted by: * Need to make sense of experiences. * Desire to construct more advanced understandings of the world.
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Lev Vygotsky - Cognitive Development
* Cognitive development is as a result of social interactions * Not a result of then physical world * Learning is acquired in 3 ways 1. Imitation - Watching Others 2. Internalisation - Of Learning 3. Collaboration - With Peers * Emphasis on socio-cultural environment as driving cognitive development
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Lev Vygotsky - Language Development
* Language is foundation for development of higher human thought * Language comes BEFORE cognition. * Individuals learn to **converse** with words (social) **before** they begin to **think** with **words** (private). * Cognitive development is influenced by the language of a child’s culture.
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Lawrence Kohlberg
* Theory of moral development * Children’s understandings of morality based upon more advanced understandings of social justice * Advancements occur in stages dependent upon cognitive development.
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Kohlbergs Stages of Moral Development
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Biological Theories
* Development through physiological processes * John Bowlby * Adaptive value of behaviour for members of a species over generations * Natural selection favours behaviours that enhance reproductive success
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Bowlby's Attachment Theory
* How do relationships with primary caregivers affect subsequent behaviours * Biologically predisposed to form relationships with other humans to ensure our survival. * Those early relationships establish a mental model of relationships that guides subsequent behaviour
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Contemporary Lifespan Theories
Focus on the adult years
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Daniel Levinson 1920-1994
* Development during adulthood. * Adult period consists of regular alternation between periods of: * Stable functioning (Life Structures). * Developmental upheaval (the Transitions). * Life goals and activities are re evaluated during the transitions.
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Paul Baltes 1939 -
* Lifespan development balances growth (or gains) and decline (or loss). * Losses predominate over gains in latter half of lifespan. * Development continues through THREE processes ( * Selection * Optimisation * Compensation.
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Paul Baltes - SOC
* Older adults maximise the positive and minimise the negative through: * Selecting - Particular Abilities * Optimising - Abilities through practice and new techniques * Compensating - For losses of other abilities by finding other ways to accomplish tasks
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Compare and Contrast Theorists
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Erikson's Theory Concept
Development through crises prompted by biological events but resolved socially
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Daniel Levinson's Theory Concept
Adult development as series of stages of stable functioning interrupted by developmental upheaval.
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Albert Bandura's Theory Concept
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Freud's Theory Concepts
* Unconscious & Subconscious * ID, Ego & Superego * Development of sexual identity through identification with same-sex parent.
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Jean Piaget's Theory concepts
* Children move through four different stages of mental development. * Egocentrism marks cognition in early childhood.
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Paul Baltes' Theory Concepts
* people develop at all points during their lives, not just in childhood and adolescence * 3 fundamental processes of developmental regulation are essential for successful development and aging * Selection * Optimisation * Compensation
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