Psych & 200 Life-Span Development 12th Edition

Running head : Life-Span Development 12th Ed , Santrock : Outline and Review

Life-Span Development 12th Ed , Santrock : Outline and Review

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University Name or Affiliation Chapter 1 : The Life-Span Perspective

Outline

The Life-Span Perspective

The Nature of Development

Theories of Development

Research in Life-Span Development

Review

The outstanding ideas in section I revolved around understanding the life-span perspective . The key components are that development is life long , that it doesn 't just end at early adulthood when you are `grown-up . Development is multidimensional in that biological

psychological , emotional events all influence each other and every area of development . The idea that development being multidirectional was expressed , meaning that our capacity is as a whole and that as we grow in one area other areas become diminished . Development is plastic in that one event doesn 't determine cognition doesn 't stop at a certain age , etc . Development is also contextual in that normative and non-normative events greatly influence out outcome . It is also discussed how cultural traditions and social policies are influence by life-span development

In section II , Santrock addresses the nature of development in biological , cognitive , socioemotional terms . He also looks at the general periods of development and our perspectives on age and issues that affect our development

Section III looks at different theories on development it discusses the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Erickson , the cognitive theories of Piaget and Vygotsky , the behavioral and social cognitive theories of Skinner and Bandura , the ethological theories of Lorenz...