Human Development Across the Life Span

1
Chapter 11

• Human Development Across the Life Span

2
Three Fundamental Questions Regarding Development

• Nature nurture
• Continuity stages
• Stability - change

3
Research Methods

• Longitudinal
• Cross-sectional

4
Prenatal Development

• Conception
• Zygote
• Embryo
• Fetus
• Teratogens
• Fetal alcohol syndrome

5
Perceptual Development

• Vision
• Distinguish patterns
• Recognize human faces
• Perceive depth
• Hearing
• Distinguish different speech sounds
• Distinguish tones of voice indicating emotion
• Touch
• Pain
• Smell
• Taste

6
Social Relationships

• Attachment
• Harry Harlows experiments
• Ainsworth strange situation
• Secure attachment
• Anxious resistant attachment
• Anxious avoidant attachment
• Anxious disorganized/disoriented attachment

7
Temperament

• Easy
• Slow to warm up
• Difficult

8
Parenting Styles

• Authoritarian
• Permissive
• Authoritative
• Rejecting/neglecting

9
Eriksons Psychosocial Stages

• Trust vs. mistrust
• Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
• Initiative vs. guilt
• Competence (industry) vs. inferiority
• Identity vs. role confusion
• Intimacy vs. isolation
• Generativity vs. stagnation
• (Ego) Integrity vs. despair

10
Moral Development (Kohlberg)

• Preconventional
• Stage 1 punishment orientation
• Stage 2 reward orientation
• Conventional
• Stage 3 good boy/good girl orientation
• Stage 4 authority orientation
• Postconventional
• Stage 5 social contract orientation
• Stage 6 ethical principle orientation