PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prenatal Development
30 May 2018
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PSYC 2110 Lecture 5 Notes
Introduction
A Continual and Cumulative Process
• Some Basic Observations about the Character of Development Now that we have
defined development and talked very briefly about the goals that developmentalists
pursue, let’s osider soe of the olusios the hae dra aout the harater of
development.
• Although no one can specify precisely what adulthood holds in store from even the
ost etiulous eaiatio of a perso’s hildhood, deelopetalists hae leared
that the first 12 years are extremely important for setting the stage for adolescence and
adulthood.
• Who we are as adolescents and adults also depends on the experiences we have later in
life.
• Obviously, you are not the same person you were at age 10 or even at age 15.
• You have probably grown somewhat, acquired new academic skills, and developed very
different interests and aspirations from those you had as a fifth-grader or a high school
junior.
• And the path of such developmental change stretches ever onward, through middle age
and beyond, culminating in the final change that occurs when we die.
• In sum, human development is best described as a continual and cumulative process.
• The one constant is change, and the changes that occur at each major phase of life can
have important implications for the future.
• A chronological overview of the life span as developmentalists sees it.
• Our focus in this text is on development during the first five periods of life
• Prenatal development, infancy and toddlerhood, preschool, middle childhood, and
adolescence.
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