AHSC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 97: Cerebral Cortex, Birth Weight, Organogenesis
10 Jan 2017
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Life-span development: is the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span focuses on the physical, psychological, and emotional changes over the course of an individual"s life. Development occurs from birth until death. it involves both growth and decline. Knowledge of how we develop as humans provides us with insight into the meaning of life. Our development as humans is constructed through a blending of biological, socio- cultural, and individual factors. With modern technology people are living longer and healthier, this is allowing us to study new stages of neurological diseases that occur later on in life. Lifelong: no age period dominates development and we continue to morph as we age. Multidimensional: development consists of biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional processes. Multidirectional: development occurs in different ways and it includes both growth and decline. Plastic: development involves our capacity for change. our changes define who we are.
