Developmental Psychology Portage Module 1
1. Major periods of lifespan development:
1. prenatal development
2. infancy and toddlerhood
3. early childhood
4. middle childhood
5. adolescence
6. early adulthood
7. middle adulthood
8. late adulthood
2. What does it mean that development is multidirectional?:
Development involves both improvement and decline. Specific terms,
such as growth, aging, and maturation reflect the multidirectional
nature of development. (example: adults who are aging and facing
some physical declines but are becoming more emotionally mature at
the same time)
3. Maturation: becoming more developed and advanced / can be
physical, emo- tional, and/or cognitive
4. Multidisciplinary: involving two or more subject areas
(understanding human development is important to health sciences,
social sciences, and education)
5. Multidimensional: biological, social, emotional, cognitive (and
moral)
6. Continuity: we perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather than
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, discontinuous ones
7. Discontinuity: A view of development as taking place in stages
that are distinct from one another rather than as one gradual,
continuous process. One stage ends before the other begins.
8. Sigmund Freud: psychosexual stages, each of which involves a
conflict and a fixation with an area of the body that is associated with
sexual gratification
9. Id: emerges at birth, unconscious impulses, demand immediate
fulfillment
10.ego: emerges in infancy, conscious mind, weighs desires of the id
with reality
11.Superego: emerges in early childhood, internalization of social
norms and standards
12.oral personality: dependent, needy, chewing gum, biting
fingernails
13.anal retentive: order, cleanliness, control environment
14.Freud's stages of developement: Oral Stage (Birth - 18
months) *feeding Anal Stage (18 months - 3 years) *toilet training
Phallic Stage (3 years - 5 years) *Oedipal conflict
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1. Major periods of lifespan development:
1. prenatal development
2. infancy and toddlerhood
3. early childhood
4. middle childhood
5. adolescence
6. early adulthood
7. middle adulthood
8. late adulthood
2. What does it mean that development is multidirectional?:
Development involves both improvement and decline. Specific terms,
such as growth, aging, and maturation reflect the multidirectional
nature of development. (example: adults who are aging and facing
some physical declines but are becoming more emotionally mature at
the same time)
3. Maturation: becoming more developed and advanced / can be
physical, emo- tional, and/or cognitive
4. Multidisciplinary: involving two or more subject areas
(understanding human development is important to health sciences,
social sciences, and education)
5. Multidimensional: biological, social, emotional, cognitive (and
moral)
6. Continuity: we perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather than
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, discontinuous ones
7. Discontinuity: A view of development as taking place in stages
that are distinct from one another rather than as one gradual,
continuous process. One stage ends before the other begins.
8. Sigmund Freud: psychosexual stages, each of which involves a
conflict and a fixation with an area of the body that is associated with
sexual gratification
9. Id: emerges at birth, unconscious impulses, demand immediate
fulfillment
10.ego: emerges in infancy, conscious mind, weighs desires of the id
with reality
11.Superego: emerges in early childhood, internalization of social
norms and standards
12.oral personality: dependent, needy, chewing gum, biting
fingernails
13.anal retentive: order, cleanliness, control environment
14.Freud's stages of developement: Oral Stage (Birth - 18
months) *feeding Anal Stage (18 months - 3 years) *toilet training
Phallic Stage (3 years - 5 years) *Oedipal conflict
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