Normal Development- A Lifespan Approach

We will be studying normal development using the lifespan

approach/perspective.

This approach recognizes the great complexity in factors that

contribute to human change.

Studying development using the lifespan perspective illustrates

how lives are unique.

It contains information about who we are and how we came to

be the way we are and where our future will lead us.

This perspective shows that development involves both growth

and decline as well as changes that occur from conception to
birth and to death.

Understanding the lifespan perspective helps us to answer

questions about pressures on the family and problems facing
educators.

This approach helps us explain and understand the extent to

which our development is affected by biological inheritance and
environmental experiences.