Life Development

Life Development

1. -Is caused by

2. Factors (cultural, social, genetic, environmental)

   • Theoretical frameworks in developments psychology
     • -characterized because
     • The individual child should not be studied in isolation, abstracted from their social relationships or cultural circumstances
       • -divided into
       • Genetic Psychology
         • Growth and development referred to a focus on origins rather than molecular genetic
           • Hall, Gesell and Erikson role of biological maturation in children´s development (has active stages of evolution)
             • importance
             • Genetic and Biological factors play the dominant role in development
           • emphasized by
         • consist of
       • Behaviorist Framework
         • Shaping behavior often through reward and punishment
           • Watson (control fear is learning response ) Pavlov (stimulus generated other stimulus) Skinner (actions what is feeling inside) Bandura (environment influenced behavior)
             • Process in which biology provides the clay and the environment shapes it
             • importance
           • emphasized by
         • consist of
       • Cognitive Frame
         • The brain is seen as a version of the new electronic computer (mind process information by the reason and infer)
           • considers
           • Interaction between child and environment as process of gathering information (construct mental models)
             • assumed
             • To be a process of constructing cognitive representations
         • consist of
       • Constructivist Framework
         • A child is always building knowledge about their physical environment
           • Piaget ( active interaction with environment create structures about world, assimilation and accommodation)
             • Intelligence moves through a universal sequence of qualitatively distinct stage cognition refers to development
             • importance
           • emphasized by
         • consist of
       • Cultural Psychology
         • Cultural art acts provide the means which people interact with the world around them and with one another.
           • Vygotsky (learn how to think through interactions with others)
             • Process driven to live in a social world
             • importance
           • emphasized by
         • consist of
   • Theoretical preposition of life-span psychology
     • Involves the study of constancy and change in behavior through life
       • divided in 2 modes
       • Extension of developmental studies across the life course
       • Aim to explore and research specific implications for the general nature of developmentally theory
     • -characterized because it
     • contains 3 concepts
     • Development (life-long process that have not period age)
     • Multidirectiinality (diversity or pluralism, direction of change varies by categories of behavior)
     • Plasticity (life conditions and experiences of an individual, give the course of the development in many ways)
   • -divided into