JUSTINE QUEENIE P.

ALEJO
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“Continuous Process”

As time goes by, we noticed changes in a human's life (Physically,

Emotionally, Mentally, and Spiritually). A subfield of psychology called
"human development" aims to understand humans and how they change,
grow, and develop over the span of their life. This field of study has a wide
scope and can aid people in understanding themselves and their
relationships better. It can therefore be applied in a variety of professional
contexts and career pathways.

There are two approaches in which human development can be

studied. The traditional and life-span development. The life-span
development approach places an emphasis on developmental change both
during infancy and maturity. development lasts a lifetime and adulthood is not
the moment at which progress stops. The life-span approach emphasizes
how developmental changes persist and continue throughout life. When
progress is still possible, we cannot argue that we are too old for something.
According to this theory, development involves growth, maintenance, and
regulation in addition to biological, cognitive, and socioemotional elements. In
the life-span approach, where people continuously respond to and act on
situations where evolving humans inhabit an evolving world, the development
is also contextual. The traditional development, on the other hand, typically
has a turning point where it emphasizes a broad range of change from birth
to adolescence, specifically during infancy where change is ceaseless but
during adulthood, little or no changes arise and fade in old age. They typically
watch as their children develop from infancy through childhood, just like
mothers do. They commonly noticed that their children matured most
throughout their early years but that nothing changed after that. The
attractiveness of a person's physical appearance, which mostly develops in
childhood, improves or largely remains the same during adulthood, and then
starts to diminish or decline in old age, is one of the best examples of
traditional development approach. As a result, the traditional technique has a
start and a finish, and when it achieves its highest point, it frequently has a
boundary or constraint.

In my viewpoint, the life-span approach is far superior to the traditional

approach. In view of the fact that, it acknowledges that human development is
a continuous process, it is closer to the truth. All throughout their lives, people
have the capacity to evolve. As an individual age, growth only slightly declines,
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while development (mental, moral, social, spiritual) keeps going. Any and all
encounters that a person has experienced also contribute to the growth.