DEP3053 final exam review
Chapter 1: An Orientation to LifeSpan Development
A. Prologue: New Conceptions
- Louise Brown: world’s first “test-tube” baby, born by in vitro
fertilisation (IVF)
- IVF: procedure in which fertilisation of a mother’s egg by a
father’s sperm takes place outside of the mother’s body
- Elizabeth Carr: first IVF baby born in the US
B. Looking Ahead: An Orientation to Lifespan Development
- Their conception was novel but their development followed
predictable patterns.
- We’ve all gone through child development
- Issues ranging from cloning and the consequences of poverty on
development all the way to the effects of culture and race, raise
significant developmental concerns
- Lifespan development: (what it is based on Louise and
Elizabeth’s situation)
- Investigate behaviour: those who investigate behaviour at the
level of biological processes might look into whether Elizabeth
and Louise functioning prior to birth was affected in any way by
the way they were conceived
- Study genetics: those that study genetics might examine how
the genetics from their parents might affect their later behavior
- Thinking processes: those that investigate this, might examine
how Louise and Elizabeth’s understanding on how they were
conceived change as they get older.
,DEP3053 final exam review
- Physical Growth: might look into the rates of growth and if there
was any difference between them and children that were
conceived traditionally.
- Social world and social relationships: might look at the ways
these two interacted with others around them and the kind of
friendships and relationships they developed.
- Common concern among lifespan development specialists:
- understanding the growth and change that individuals go through
during the course of life
- they study how both the biological inheritance of our parents and
the environment in which we live jointly affect our behaviours.
- all are that neither heredity or environment alone can account for
the full range of human development
- “Many of the questions that developmentalists ask are the
scientist’s version of the questions that parents ask about their
children and themselves: how the genetic legacy of parents
plays out in their children; how children learn, why they make the
choices they make, whether personality characteristics are
inherited and whether they change or are stable over time…”
C. Determining the Nature and Nurture - of Lifespan
Development
1.1.1 : Defining Lifespan Development
LO: DEFINE THE FIELD OF LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT AND
DESCRIBE WHAT IT ENCOMPASSES
- Lifespan development: field of study that looks into patterns of
growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur in our entire life
,DEP3053 final exam review
span
, DEP3053 final exam review
- Scientific approach is used in research - testing assumptions
using methodical scientific techniques to validate them.
- Lifespan development focused on HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
- Topics:
- Universal principles of development
- Cultural differences affect development
- Racial “ “
- Ethnic “ “
- Characteristics that differentiate one person from another
- “Development as a continuing process throughout the life
span”
- Change is a focus, and so is stability - which areas do people
change and grow and when does their behaviour reveal
consistency and continuity
- Assumption: process of development persists from the moment of
conception until death ( others continue showing some changes
while others demonstrate stability until their death) // There is no
single period that governs all development, we have the capacity
for substantial growth and change for the rest of our lives
1.1.2 : The Scope of the Field of Lifespan Development
LO: DESCRIBE THE AREAS THAT LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
SPECIALIST COVER
- developmentalist seek to specialise in both a topical area and an
age range
1.1.2.1 : Topical Areas in LifeSpan Development
Chapter 1: An Orientation to LifeSpan Development
A. Prologue: New Conceptions
- Louise Brown: world’s first “test-tube” baby, born by in vitro
fertilisation (IVF)
- IVF: procedure in which fertilisation of a mother’s egg by a
father’s sperm takes place outside of the mother’s body
- Elizabeth Carr: first IVF baby born in the US
B. Looking Ahead: An Orientation to Lifespan Development
- Their conception was novel but their development followed
predictable patterns.
- We’ve all gone through child development
- Issues ranging from cloning and the consequences of poverty on
development all the way to the effects of culture and race, raise
significant developmental concerns
- Lifespan development: (what it is based on Louise and
Elizabeth’s situation)
- Investigate behaviour: those who investigate behaviour at the
level of biological processes might look into whether Elizabeth
and Louise functioning prior to birth was affected in any way by
the way they were conceived
- Study genetics: those that study genetics might examine how
the genetics from their parents might affect their later behavior
- Thinking processes: those that investigate this, might examine
how Louise and Elizabeth’s understanding on how they were
conceived change as they get older.
,DEP3053 final exam review
- Physical Growth: might look into the rates of growth and if there
was any difference between them and children that were
conceived traditionally.
- Social world and social relationships: might look at the ways
these two interacted with others around them and the kind of
friendships and relationships they developed.
- Common concern among lifespan development specialists:
- understanding the growth and change that individuals go through
during the course of life
- they study how both the biological inheritance of our parents and
the environment in which we live jointly affect our behaviours.
- all are that neither heredity or environment alone can account for
the full range of human development
- “Many of the questions that developmentalists ask are the
scientist’s version of the questions that parents ask about their
children and themselves: how the genetic legacy of parents
plays out in their children; how children learn, why they make the
choices they make, whether personality characteristics are
inherited and whether they change or are stable over time…”
C. Determining the Nature and Nurture - of Lifespan
Development
1.1.1 : Defining Lifespan Development
LO: DEFINE THE FIELD OF LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT AND
DESCRIBE WHAT IT ENCOMPASSES
- Lifespan development: field of study that looks into patterns of
growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur in our entire life
,DEP3053 final exam review
span
, DEP3053 final exam review
- Scientific approach is used in research - testing assumptions
using methodical scientific techniques to validate them.
- Lifespan development focused on HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
- Topics:
- Universal principles of development
- Cultural differences affect development
- Racial “ “
- Ethnic “ “
- Characteristics that differentiate one person from another
- “Development as a continuing process throughout the life
span”
- Change is a focus, and so is stability - which areas do people
change and grow and when does their behaviour reveal
consistency and continuity
- Assumption: process of development persists from the moment of
conception until death ( others continue showing some changes
while others demonstrate stability until their death) // There is no
single period that governs all development, we have the capacity
for substantial growth and change for the rest of our lives
1.1.2 : The Scope of the Field of Lifespan Development
LO: DESCRIBE THE AREAS THAT LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
SPECIALIST COVER
- developmentalist seek to specialise in both a topical area and an
age range
1.1.2.1 : Topical Areas in LifeSpan Development
