FRHD 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Development, Social Change
25 Oct 2016
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Human development: multidisciplinary scientific study of how people change and how they remain the same over time. Scientific inquiry into human development is relatively new before development was considered to occur during childhood, with puberty marking final step. There are five key ideas that guide the contemporary study of human development from a lifespan perspective. According to these ideas, development is: multi-directional: over time human characteristics change in every direction, not always linear. Development can be thought of as a series of gains and losses, predictable growth and unexpected transformations: multi-contextual: each person lives a life that is embedded in many contexts including a particular historical period, family system, community, Every individual and every trait within an individual can be altered in any point in the lifespan. A different way to study human development (beyond chronology) is to consider three domains of development that are important at every age, each of which is affected by the other two.
