HDFS 2200 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 Adult Development and Aging

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 2200
• Professor: Abdul Khaleque

Document Summary

4:39 pm: maturity, physical maturity, puberty, attaining physical maturity = able to produce children, psychological maturity. Iq, intellectual capacity: emotional maturity, getting mad and crying =/= maturity, social maturity. It is a systematic process of adaptive changes in behavior in one or more directions: development tends to progress. For example, language development: words, phrases, grammatical sentences, development involves. Infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age: prenatal, conception to birth, postnatal, anything after birth, three stages of adulthood, young, middle, older, history and context, development depends on historical and physical, psychological, and social contexts. Family, ethnicity, country in which you were born, how people treated you, etc: multidimensionality, physical, psychological, social, moral, etc, multidirectionality, growth and decline, can go both up and down. In childhood and adolescence lots of upward development, young adulthood continue increasing: at certain point, don"t increase anymore, stay steady throughout middle adulthood, both up and down in middle age.