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- 1What is Lifespan Development?This term is used to refer to age-related changes that occur from birth, throughout a person’s life, into and during old age.
- 2Stages of the LifespanInfancy – birth to two years
Childhood – two years to 10 years
Adolescence – 10 years to 20 years
Early Adulthood – 20 years to 40 years
Middle Age – 40 years to 65 years
Older Age – 65 years and beyond - 3What are the areas of Lifespan Development?- Physical (biological) Development
- Social Development
- Cognitive Development
- Emotional Development - 4What is Nature?Nature (Heredity) -> the transmission of characteristics from biological parents to their offspring via genes at the time of conception.
- 5What is Nurture?Nurture (Environment) -> all experiences, objects and events to which we are all exposed to throughout our entire lifetime
- 6What is the Biological Perspective of Psychology?Focuses on the biological or physiological bases of development.
- 7What is the Cognitive Perspective of Psychology?Focuses on changes in how we acquire, process, remember and use information throughout the lifespan
- 8What is the Behavioural Perspective of Psychology?Focuses on how behaviour is acquired or changes as a result of environmental influences, particularly learning
- 9What is the Socio-Cultural Perspective of Psychology?Emphasises the roles of social and cultural influences on human behaviour and mental processes
- 10What is Adaptation?The continuous process of using the environment to learn and of learning to adjust to changes that occur in the environment.
- 11What is Assimilation?The process of taking in new information and fitting it into and making it part of an existing mental idea about objects or the world.
- 12What is Accommodation?Changing an existing mental idea in order to fit new information. A more sophisticated and advanced process.
- 13What is Schema?A mental idea, or organised mental representation, of what something is and how to deal with it.
- 14Stages of Piaget's Theory-Sensory Motor 0-2
- Pre-Operational 2-7
-Concrete Operational 7-12
- Formal Operational 12+ - 15Criticisms of Piaget's Theory- Key Accomplishments are often achieved by children much younger than the ages proposed by Piaget.
- Age ranges vary more widely than Piaget described
- Piaget may have overestimated young children’s language ability.
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