Intro to HGAD

Intro to HGAD

1. Lifespan development definition

   • "the scientific study of age-related changes in behaviour, thinking, emotion & personality" ~ Boyd & Bee, 2005

2. WHO

   • Monitor life expectancy rates
   • Prevent spread of diseases
   • World Health Organisation

3. Individual Variation

   • 1. Biological
   • 2. Psychological
   • 3. Social
   • 4. Environmental
   • 5. Cultural

4. Risk & Protective factors

5. Areas of Development

   • 1. Physical
   • 2. Cognitive
   • 3. Socio-Emotional
   • 4. Emotional
   • 5. Social

6. Growth Patterns

   • Cephalocaudal
   • Proximodistal

7. Motor Skills

   • Gross
   • Fine

8. 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+)

9. Nature v Nurture Debate

   • Nature = Thomas Bouchard
   • Nurture = Same genetics, different environment - different people
   • Epigenetics

10. Early v Later Experiences

    • Early = Freud
    • Later = Erikson

11. Critical v Sensitive Period Debate

    • Studies of extreme deprivation
      • Rutter & ERA
      • Dr Sheila Greene