Lifespan

The process of ongoing hange, reorganizaiton, and ingration that occurs throughout life.

• Body structure
• Physiologial function
• Psycosocial behaviors
• Emotional responses
• Cognition

Two primary factors that drive growth and development - genetics and environment.

Involves the potential for human function determined by a persons inheretance of 46 chromosomes that carry information from the birth parents.

defines the context in which a person exists including both animate and inanimate surroundings.

A highly individual, cognative, neurosensory process that allows each person to experience the environment uniquely.

A series of changes that start with conceptiona and continue thru death.

A time during whih specific environmental or biologic events must occure for development to proceed normally.

When a perosn demonstrates new abilities acquired through change

• Principles of Growth and Development
• Growth and Development Theories

• Psycodynamic Theories.
• Cognitive Development Theories.
• Developmental Task Theory
• Human Needs Theory

• Freud - Importance of Childhood experience on adult personality.
• Erickson - Psychosocial theory of development encompassed social and cultural influences as well.

Deals with perception and thinking, focuses on development of intellectual processes.

• Piaget - assumption that human nature is essentially rational and that the individual's basic goal is to learn ot master the environment.
• Kohlberg - extended Piagets moral reasoning to include moral development

Based on learning and learned behaviors which emanate from biologic, physchological and social origins across a lifespan.

• Proposes people are basically good when born and attempt to become all they are capabale of becoming throughout their lives.
• Maslow