Comprehensive Guide to Developmental Psychology
Unlock the secrets of human growth with our detailed exploration of Developmental Psychology. This extensive resource covers every stage of life, from prenatal development to late adulthood, offering deep insights into physical, cognitive, and emot...
, Learning Outcomes
At the end of the lessons the students should:
• Describe how nature and nurture interact in facilitating
development
• Describe the different physical changes according to the stages of
development
• Recommend the preventative measures that could be
implemented to minimize the negative psychosocial factors on
human development
• Explain how the infant perceive meaning in their environment
• Describe Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
• Apply Piaget’s theory to interpret individuals’ behaviour
• Explain how information is processed to derive meaning to a
situation
, Learning Outcomes
At the end of the lessons the students should:
• Describe and motivate the change in cognitive development with age
• Define attachment and explain how it can affect later social
development
• Show how parents, culture and gender can affect socialization and
social development
• Explain the effects of sibling and peer relationship on social
development of an individual
• Describe and analyze Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development
• Describe and compare the different theories of moral development
• Describe the role of emotions in moral development
, • Developmental psychologists learn about the human
growth and development that occurs throughout the
entire lifespan. This includes not only physical
development, but also cognitive, social, intellectual,
perceptual, personality and emotional growth.
• This field studies change across a broad range of topi
including motor skills and other psychophysiological
Introduction processes; cognitive development involving areas suc
problem-solving, moral and conceptual understandin
language acquisition, self-concept and identity
formation; and social, personality and emotional
development.
• Our health is, to a large extent, determined by the so
circumstances in which we are born and brought up.
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