Introduction to Lifespan Development

Developmental Psychology is

There was tension between

Empirical scientific testing

First scientific observations of development

It wasn't until Darwin that

In the late 19th Century

Today in the 21st Century

Three main domains of human development

Physical development involves

Proportion at infancy

Other physical developments include

Nature vs. nurture

Feral children

These children may also have

The extent to which a victim can be rehabilitated

Each case (of feral children)

Kasper Hauser (1812-1833)

Social Development

Cognitive Development

Development is interdisciplinary

Stages of Life:
Prenatal Period

Stages of Life:
Infancy

Stages of Life:
Early Childhood

Stages of Life:
Middle and late childhood

Stages of Life:
Adolescence

Stages of Life:
Adulthood and Old Age

Continuous development

In continuous development, new events

Discontinuous development

Discontinuous development can be positive

Most contemporary theorists incorporate

Psychologists are intrigued by

Domain general development

Piaget argued development is

Domain specific dveelopment

Empiricism

Nativism

Most contemporary theorists argue that

Environment vs. inheritance

Plomin et al (2001)

Therefore a combination of

Critical period

Sensitive period

sensitive period: if those experiences

Behaviourism

Most work in behaviourism

Behaviourism: change in behaviour

classical conditions

Classical conditioning was first discovered

Watson and Rayner (1920)

The conditioned response is

With Litter Albert, stimulus generalisation occured

Evaluation of Watson and Rayner (1920)

Ecological Validity

Evaluation of Watson and Rayner (1920)

Consent

Evaluation of Watson and Rayner (1920)

Replication

Operant Conditioning

John Watson's Behaviourist Approach (1878-1958)

Issues for behaviourism

Maturational Theory (Gesell, Darwin)

Gessell and Ames (1940)

McGraw (1953)

Psychodynamic Approach

The Psyche

The Id

The ego

The psychodynamic approach assumes

The conscious

The preconscious

The unconscious

The superego

Motives drive

Latent motives

Manifest motives

Freud's Psychosexual stages

Freud believed that

If you don't successfully advance to the next psychosexual stage

Fixation with the mouth

Anal stage

Phallic Stage

Little Hans - Freud (1909)

Example of Phallic Stage

Latency Stage

Genital Stage

John Bowlby's Ethological Theory

Lorenz

Ethologist's basic method of study

Ethological Research

Theories of cognitive development

Social Learning Theory

Bandura (1963)

4 cognitive processes govern

Constructionism
Piaget

Sociocultural theory of cognitive development:
Vygotsky

Evolutionary theory of cognitive development

Jerry Fodor's Book (Modularity of Mind 1983)

Information Processing Approach to Cognitive Development

Siegler and Alibali (2005)

IP approach is characterised by 4 assumptions

Neo-Piagetian theory of cognitive development

Case (1992,1998)

Connectionist Models of Development

Developmental Neuroscience

Texas adoption project (Loehiln et al. 1994)

Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study (Scarr et al. 1993)

Mark Baldwin's approach
(Connectionist)