Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Intro to HGAD
- Lifespan development definition
- "the scientific study of age-related changes in behaviour, thinking, emotion & personality" ~ Boyd & Bee, 2005
- WHO
- Monitor life expectancy rates
- Prevent spread of diseases
- World Health Organisation
- Individual Variation
- 1. Biological
- 2. Psychological
- 3. Social
- 4. Environmental
- 5. Cultural
- Risk & Protective factors
- Areas of Development
- 1. Physical
- 2. Cognitive
- 3. Socio-Emotional
- 4. Emotional
- 5. Social
- Growth Patterns
- Cephalocaudal
- Proximodistal
- Motor Skills
- Gross
- Fine
- Periods of Development
- Prenatal (0-1)
- Infancy (1-2)
- Early Childhood (2-5)
- Middle & Late Childhood (6-11)
- Adolescence (12-19)
- Early Adulthood (20-40)
- Middle Adulthood (40-65)
- Late Adulthood (65+)
- Nature v Nurture Debate
- Nature = Thomas Bouchard
- Nurture = Same genetics, different environment - different people
- Epigenetics
- Early v Later Experiences
- Early = Freud
- Later = Erikson
- Critical v Sensitive Period Debate
- Studies of extreme deprivation
- Rutter & ERA
- Dr Sheila Greene