Life-Span Development

Erikson’s (1968, 1980, 1982) psychosocial stages of development provide a framework for the different stages of development throughout the human lifespan. These stages of development begin at birth and continue until death, and separate the lifespan into eight stages based on chronological age. Within these eight different aging stages are corresponding psychosocial stages. Each of these psychosocial stages represent a conflict between two characteristics of development for that particular time period in a person’s life.

Prenatal Development and the newborn: The focal point of this section was conception and the development of life before birth. I’ve read that every woman is born with a number of eggs that will later be released. Out of that number 1 in 5,000

Lifespan development occurs from birth to death. First, there are birth stages that each individual undergoes: germinal, embryonic, fetal. I was born early, however, this did not affect my future development. As I grew up, I got taller, my hair lightened and then darkened again. I also grew stronger as my physical development progressed. My brain grew, my senses and motor skills heightened, and my health fluctuated as I went through life. While I was physically developing, I was also cognitively developing. Going through school and academic programs, I learned new skills and concepts. My attention span expanded as I aged, and my memory grew to be more reliable and efficient. Also, my language skills increased as I learned both english and

I am currently taking Life-span Growth and Development Psychology. This course is not only viable to me as a psychology major, but it assists my further thinking on aspects I was unaware of that occur in my life. Many topics in this course have to do with the key developments to a person’s life starting at infancy, all the way until late adulthood.

Physical development is any physical change to the body or brain, including motor skills and health (Module 8.1: What Is Lifespan Development?, 2017). Many examples can be found throughout a person’s life, such as a one year old baby learning to stack building blocks and puberty. Cognitive development consists of mental processes and skills, such as memory, reasoning, and creativity (Module 8.1: What Is Lifespan Development?, 2017). A little boy who has sensitive hearing may hear many babies cry and then hear one baby in particular’s cry that hurts his ears. Now when the boy encounters a child younger than he is, he holds his ears and pleads to leave thinking every baby’s cry will hurt his ears. Psychosocial development is basically the development

The average life expectancy in the United States is seventy-eight years old. You might be thinking “wow, that is a long time.” One could only imagine the development that occurs during those years. Santrock (2014) defined development as, “a pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and expands all through an entire lifespan,” (1-4). Development is life-long, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, contextual, as well as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss (Santrock, 2014, 1-5). All in all, these characteristics of the lifespan perspective explain how development happens at all stages of one’s life in different contexts while the brain expands as we learn new things and grow

Development happens to people which, of course, goes without saying, but does development stop at a certain stage or does it continue throughout one's lifetime. The development of the person does not happen overnight, and it has been the purpose of many researchers to determine exactly how far development extends. The theories of lifespan development are among the most complete at attempting to codify development, but even they are not complete in and of themselves. That is why many different theories exist. This paper examines the lifespan theory of development, summarizes two of the theories, and looks at the influences of heredity and environment.

The major principles of a lifespan development theory are: Freuds' psychoanalytic theory, Erikson's psychosocial theory, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, and Vygotsky's socialcultural theory. Each theory in particular showcases different aspects of a persons' experience while growing up in life from a young age to adulthood. Freuds' theory believes that unconsciousness is what determines someone’s personality and behavior. This is just one example, as each given theory deals with something of different. If we take the psychoscial theory and put it beside the psychoanalytic theory: The difference is easy to spot. Eriksons' theory deals more with others where as Freuds' deals with ourself. With Piaget's theory, it is more drawn to the

Another positive concept from Life Span Developmental Theory is that development is multi dimensional and directional. There are several variables, sources,

According to our textbook, Development Across the Lifespan, one eighth of the population in the United States is 65 years of age or older. Additionally, the fastest growing segment of the

Since the opposite of long is short there is a word for the opposite word for good which is bad. Since Extending life span have many good sides which help the human by many ways, there are also many problems we have to think about which affect the biodiversity and the future generation of human being. This technology affects the people to change their way of life, mentally, socially and economically. Mentally people will start planning for long term, they think they will have time to finish what they start in their life. The more one person aged the more he need care and protection.

Our lives, are rather insignificant in the whole scheme of the universe, just imagine that the universe has been around for billions and billions of years, yet we only see a 100-year portion of it. If we get to see that whole 100 years of it then we are considered lucky, the average life span is influenced by so many variables, it is amazing how many things that we have little or no control over can effect the our lives. For instance, genetics is a variable that we have no control over, we do not choose our genetic makeup, it is chosen for us. Yet our genetics influence our lives in such a large way.

The life-span development approach addresses the basic nature versus nurture debate by allowing for both. Just as our physicals selves are determined by both genetics and lifestyle, so are our emotional selves. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I plan to consider life-span development to specialize in counseling a specific type of person with hopes of becoming well-versed, and therefore more helpful, in the types of experiences that group faces.

1. Explore theories of lifespan development and analyse the social and biological determinants of behaviour relevant to health and social care contexts.

Throughout chapter one, I have been given a general scope of understanding on how there are multidisciplinary aspects of development that encompass and influence someone’s life, whether it be biological, socioemotional or cognitive. We have many concepts of gauging an individual’s age including psychological, biological, social and most commonly used or expressed, chronological. These concepts together, including social, economic, cultural and chronological similarities and differences, make up our developmental timeline, with everyone’s being unique. Theories on development to make sense of such complexity have been made including Freud’s psychosexual stages, Erikson’s psychosocial stages, ecological theory, ethological theory and one that attempts to incorporate or use them all, the eclectic theory. With many methods of collecting data and time span research we can identify patterns and offer solutions to man problems. However, there will always be the issue with sorting through and eliminating bias research and irrelevant, misguided and misleading information.