HDF 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Primitive Reflexes, Cognitive Development, Midnight Basketball

• School: URI
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDF 200
• Professor: A L Y S S A F R A N C I S

Document Summary

Seeks to understand how and why people all kind of people, everywhere, of every age change over time. The field of study that examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in. Lifespan development- behavior that occur throughout the entire life span, using scientific approach. Practical information for your own life: bedwetting, crying babies, peer pressure, drinking, love, careers, family, healthy aging, etc. Social policy implications: head start, midnight basketball, hpv vaccine. Traditional approach emphasized extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood, and decline in old age. Sources of development: nature vs. nurture. Plasticity: change structural limits, sensitive periods. Fetus: drugs and other harmful environmental influences can harm development. Most vulnerable time for the child(cid:495)s survival. Rapid physical, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional growth. During sensorimotor stage, infants stare at interesting visual stimuli. Cognitive development: egocentric though, animism, transductive reasoning. Social and emotional skills developed through play.