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Reviewed by Keonya Booker, Associate Professor, College of Charleston on 9/15/21. This textbook analyzes the human lifespan from birth until death. Each chapter includes a discussion about the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that can be expected at every developmental stage.
29 Ιουλ 2024 · Developmental psychology follows the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur as people move through their lifespan from childhood to adulthood.
Lifespan development explores how we change and grow from conception to death. This field of psychology is studied by developmental psychologists. They view development as a lifelong process that can be studied scientifically across three developmental domains: physical, cognitive development, and psychosocial.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this chapter, you should be able to: Explain the study of human development. Define physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development. Differentiate periods of human development. Analyze your location in the lifespan. Critique stage theory models of human development.
German psychologist Paul Baltes, a leading expert on lifespan development and aging, developed one of the approaches to studying development called the lifespan perspective. This approach is based on several key principles: Development occurs across one’s entire life, or is lifelong.
The goal of “lifespan cognitive psychology” is to shed new insights on the long-term antecedents and consequences of age-specific cognitive processes, the reciprocal co-constructive interactions between neurobiological and socio-cultural influences on cognitive development, and overarching adaptive resource allocation principles that may ...
1 Μαρ 2006 · Gray matter volume therefore shows a U-shaped trend developmentally, whose peak age varies across brain regions – about age 12 for frontal and parietal lobes, age 16 for the temporal lobe, and age 20 for the occipital lobe [33].
