Introduction of Life-span

Development

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Wan Nurshuhaila (BP10110439)
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Mohd Saifuddin (BP10110174)
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The Importance of Studying Life-Span
Development

 To see yourself as an infant, as a child,

and as an adolescent, and be stimulated to
think about how those years influenced
the kind of individual you are today

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 Characteristics of the Life-Span
Perspective
 Development is Multidimensional
 Development is lifelong
 Development is contextual
 Development is multidirectional
 Development is plastic
 Development Science is Multidisciplinary
 Development involves growth, maintenance, and
regulation of loss
 Development is a co-construction of biology,
culture, and the individual

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Some Contemporary Concerns

Health and well-being

Parenting and Education

 Sociocultural contexts and diversity

- culture , cross cultural studies, ethnicity,
socioeconomic status (SES) and gender

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The Nature of Development

Biological Process

Cognitive Socioemotional
Process process

The product of biological, cognitive and socioemotional process

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Periods of development
 Prenatal period
 Infancy (18-24 months)
 Early childhood (2-5 years)
 Middle and late childhood (6-11 years)
 Adolescence (10-12 to 18-21 years)
 Early adulthood (20s to 30s)
 Middle adulthood (40s to 50s)
 Late adulthood (60s – 70s to death)
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The significance of age

 Age and Happiness

 Conceptions of age

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Developmental issues
 Nature and Nurture

 Stability and Change

 Continuity and Discontinuity

 Evaluating the Developmental Issue

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Theories of Development
 Psychoanalytic theories
- Freud’s Theory

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 Erikson Psychosocial Theory

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 Cognitive Theory
 Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental
Theory

Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development

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 Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Cognitive
Theory
- emphasize how culture and social
interaction guide cognitive development

 Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theories

- Skinner’s Operant Conditioning
- Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory

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Ethological Theory

 Ecological Theory
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory of Development

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Research In Life-Span Development
 methods for collecting data
- observation
- survey and interview
- standardized test
- case study
- physiological measures

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research designs
-Descriptive
-Correlational
-Experimental Research

time span of research

- Cross-Sectional
-Longitudinal Approach

 Conducting Ethical Research

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