Orientation to LSD

The field of study that examines the patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the human lifespan

LSD is the non-scientific study of constancy and change From birth to death

Topical areas of Lifespan D.

Interdisciplinary fields of LSD

[blank_start]Childhood[blank_end] is the foundation period of life

Development results from [blank_start]maturation[blank_end] & [blank_start]learning[blank_end]

Features of development

THE INFLUENCES ON DEVPT 1. [blank_start]Heredity, environment, maturation[blank_end] 2. [blank_start]Contextual influences[blank_end] 3. [blank_start]Normative[blank_end] 4. [blank_start]Non normative influences[blank_end] 5. [blank_start]Timing of the influence[blank_end]

Examples for contextual influences

Normative influences are classified into 1.[blank_start]age graded[blank_end]2. [blank_start]history graded[blank_end] 3. [blank_start]sociocultural graded[blank_end] Non-normative influences are an [blank_start]atypical event[blank_end] or [blank_start]atypical timing[blank_end].

Cohort effects provide an example of age graded non-normative events

Add 3 other examples for each influence

Cohort effects provide an example of HISTORY graded NORMATIVE events, which are [blank_start]biological[blank_end] and [blank_start]environmental[blank_end] influences associated with a particular [blank_start]historical moment[blank_end].

1. A [blank_start]critical period[blank_end] is a specific time during development when a particular event has its greatest consequences. 2. In a [blank_start]Sensitive period[blank_end], Organisms are particularly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in their environment. 3. [blank_start]A sensitive period[blank_end] represents the optimal period for particular capacities to emerge, and children are particularly sensitive to environmental influences. 4. [blank_start]In critical period[blank_end] its assumed that the absence of certain kinds of environmental Influences is likely to produce permanent, irreversible consequences for the developing individuals. 5. The [blank_start]concept of sensitive period[blank_end] recognizes the plasticity of developing humans

1. [blank_start]Nature[blank_end] refers to traits, abilities, and capacities that are inherited from one's parents. 2. [blank_start]Nurture[blank_end] refers to the environmental influences that shape behavior 3. [blank_start]Nature[blank_end] encompasses any factor that is produced by maturation

Maturation is the process of the non-predetermined unfolding of genetic and biological information

Important issues of Lifespan Development.

Paul Balte’s lifespan development approach (1987) as a conceptual framework is given. Pick out the right statements.