1. UNIT-111 BA-2 SEMESTER BY: Dr DIVYA MONGA
DEVELOPMENT
UNIT-111
BA-2 SEMESTER
BY:
Dr DIVYA MONGA
DEVELOPMENT BY DR. DIVYA MONGA

2. Developmental psychology
 It is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life.
Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire lifespan
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3. Definition of Development
Oxford Concise Dictionary (2009) defines development as a specified state of growth or advancement.
Michelle(2000) defines development as the pattern of biological, cognitive, and socio- emotional changes that begins at conception and continues through the life span.
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4. Developmental is defined as change
Human development refers to a particular type of change or the pattern of change that begins at conception and continue through the life span.
Development occurs in the context of the significant social environment of life process (family, school, peer group, community).
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5. Child Development vs. Developmental Psychology
Child Development – a field devoted to understanding all aspects of human growth and change from conception through adolescence.
Developmental Psychology – the more general field of study, that includes child development, and is devoted to understanding all aspects of human growth and change across the entire lifespan.
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6. Domains of Development
Development is described in three domains, but growth
in one domain influences the other domains.
Physical Domain:
body size, body proportions, appearance, brain development, motor development, perception capacities, physical health.
Cognitive Domain:
thought processes and intellectual abilities including attention, memory, problem solving, imagination, creativity, academic and everyday knowledge, metacognition, and language.
Social/Emotional Domain:
self-knowledge (self-esteem, metacognition, sexual identity, ethnic identity), moral reasoning, understanding and expression of emotions, self-regulation, temperament, understanding others, interpersonal skills, and friendships.
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7. Fundamental Issues: Is Development Continuous?
Development means change; change can be abrupt or gradual
Two views of human development
stage theories: there are distinct phases to intellectual and personality development
continuity: development is continuous
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8. Heredity and Environment
According to Thompson, “ Heredity is mainly a convenient term for the genetic relation between successive generations.”
According to Ross, “ Environment is an external force which influences us.”
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9. Interaction of Heredity and Environment
All traits depend both on genetic and environmental factors.
Heredity and environment interact to produce their effects. This means that the way genes act depends on the environment in which they act. In the same way, the effects of environment depend on the genes with which they work.
For example, people vary in height. Although height is highly heritable, environmental variables can have a large impact.
For example, Japanese-Americans are on the average taller and heavier than their second cousins who grew up in Japan, reflecting the effect of environmental variables, especially dietary differences.
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10. Heredity and environment are not separable:
As a matter of fact, it is futile to ask which of the two factors, heredity or environment, is more important.
According to MacIver, “Every phenomenon of life is the product of both, each is as necessary to the result as the other, neither can ever be eliminated and neither can be isolated.”
No society is a product of environment alone for men inherit physical heritage.
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11. THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Erickson’s psychosocial theory
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
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12. ERIKSON’S PSCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY
Crises Resolution and Development
Erikson’s theory is based on the idea that development through life is a series of stages which are each defined by a crisis or challenge
Epigenetic Principle
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13. Eight Stages Basic Trust vs. Mistrust Autonomy versus shame/dependence
Initiative vs. self-guilt
Industry vs. inferiority
Identity vs. confusion/identity crisis
Intimacy vs. isolation
Generativity vs. stagnation
Integrity vs. despair
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15. PIAGET COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
A child’s capacity to understand certain concepts is based on the child’s developmental stage
Cognitive Functional Invariants—adaptation and organization
Adaptation involves accommodation and assimilation
Organization involves complex usage
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16. Two processes are essential for development:
Assimilation
Learning to understand events or objects, based on existing structure.
Accommodation
Expanding understanding,
based on new information.
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17. Four stages Sensorimotor—infantile physicality
Preoperational—initial symbols and language
Concrete operational—reasoning about physical objects
Formal operational—abstract thinking
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18. THANK YOU
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