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What is the direction of development according to the Cephalocaudal Law?
What is the purpose of Developmental Tasks?
What is the stage of life from birth to the end of the second week?
According to the Proximodistal Law, development spreads from where to where?
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What is the stage of life from sixty years onwards?
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What is the term for the tasks that arise at or about a certain period in an individual's life?
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What is the branch of psychology that studies intraindividual changes and interindividual changes?
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What is the study of aging?
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What is the unfolding of individual's inherent traits?
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What is the result of activities or day-to-day experiences on the person himself?
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What type of development is observed during the prenatal period and continues throughout babyhood up to the first six years?
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What is the significance of early foundations in development?
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What are some hazards of development?
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What is the branch of medicine concerned with the diseases of old age?
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Study Notes
Developmental Psychology
- Branch of psychology that studies intraindividual changes and interindividual changes within these intraindividual changes
- Focuses on age-related changes in behavior and covers the life span from conception to death
- Explains physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development over a person's life span
Key Concepts
- Development: Progressive series of changes that occur as a result of maturation and experience
- Maturation: Unfolding of traits potentially present in the individual, considering their hereditary endowment
- Learning: Result of activities or day-to-day experiences on the person himself
- Gerontology: Science of aging
- Geriatrics: Branch of medicine concerned with diseases of old age
Factors of Development
- Maturation: Unfolding of individual's inherent traits
- Learning: Development that comes from exercise and effort on the individual's part
Rate of Development
- Rapid Development: Observed during the prenatal period and continues throughout babyhood up to the first six years
- Slow Development: Starts from six years to adolescence
Significant Facts About Development
- Early foundations are critical
- Roles of maturation and learning in development
- Development follows a definite and predictable pattern
- All individuals are different
- Each phase of development has characteristics pattern of behavior
- Each phase of development has hazards
- Development is aided by stimulations
- Development is affected by cultural changes
- There are social expectations for every stage of development
Laws of Developmental Direction
- Cephalocaudal Law: Development spreads over the body from head to foot
- Proximodistal Law: Development spreads outward from the central axis of the body to the extremities
Developmental Tasks
- Task that arises at or about a certain period in the life of the individual
- Purpose: Provides guidelines, motivates individual, and shows individuals what lies ahead
Stages of the Life Span
- Prenatal Period: Conception to birth
- Infancy: Birth to the end of second week
- Babyhood: End of the second week to the end of second year
- Early Childhood: Two to six years
- Late Childhood: Six to ten or twelve years
- Puberty or Preadolescence: Ten or twelve to thirteen or fourteen years
- Adolescence: Thirteen or fourteen to eighteen years
- Early Adulthood: Eighteen to forty years
- Middle Adulthood: Forty to sixty years
- Late Adulthood: Sixty years onwards
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Description
This quiz covers the definition and scope of developmental psychology, including the study of intraindividual and interindividual changes across the lifespan.
