HDFS201 Lecture 13: Life Span Development Lecture 13

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS201
• Professor: Palkovitz Rob

Document Summary

Though norms, individual differences: gross before fine motor skills, undifferentiated differentiated, crawling at 7-10 months, walking at about one year. Thousands of steps and dozens of falls per day. Failure is common at first: new skills take lots of practice, gradual improvement over time, development takes time. Dynamic systems approach (esther thelen: a self-organizing process, trying new movements, use sensory feedback, motor milestones are learned, also require maturation, a nature/nurture position, sensorimotor. It develops: children"s thinking is different from adult"s, how do we describe and explain this, one of the most thorough and useful ways is through piaget"s theory of intellectual development. Piaget"s background information: no other theory has had so much impact on understanding of development, scope of theory broad, biological background, became interested in the origins of intelligence. The worst possible way to build a theory . The importance of early training on career development.