NUR 110 Test 12
- Life Span Perspective
Answer View of the development as being lifelong, multidimensional, plastic, multi disciplinary, and regulation of loss; and constructed through biological, sociocultural, and individual factors working together.
- Development
Answer The pattern of movement or change that begins at the conception and continues through the human life span
- Traditional Approach
Answer Emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little to no change in adulthood, and decline in old age
- Life-Span Approach
Answer Emphasizes developmental change throughout childhood and adulthood
- Life Expectancy
Answer The number of years that the average person in a particular year will probably live; average life expectancy in the US is 79
- Nature of Development
Answer biological, cognitive, socioemotional Period of development 1 / 3
Prenatal period
conception to birth (9 months)
- single cell to an organism Infancy
birth to 18-24 months
- depends on adults, language begins, sensorimotor coordination, social learning Early
childhood
- to 5-6 years (play years)
- preschool years, more self-sufficient, follows directions, knows letters and num- bers,
playing, 1st grade is the end of early childhood
Middle and late childhood
6-11 years
- Master fundamental skills of reading, writing, math, more self-control Adolescence
- physical changes, body shape, facial/ pubic hair, the voice deepens, independence/ identity
10-12 to 18-21 years
Early adulthood early 20's - 30's
- personal/ economical independence,finding bf/gf and starting a family Middle adulthood
40-60 years 2 / 3
- personal and social involvement increases, reaching Late adulthood
60's-70's to death
- Nature vs Nurture
Answer Nature - Biological inheritance, what you're born with Nurture - Environmental influences, resources that are around you
- Stability vs Change
Answer Stability - The result of heredity and early life experiences Change - Result of later experiences
- Continuity vs Discontinuity
- FiveTheoretical Orientations to Development
Answer Continuity - Gradual process, something that could occur over several years Discontinuity - Sequences of stages
Answer Psychoanalytic, cognitive, behavioral and social cognitive, ethological, ecological
- Erickson'sTheory
Answer Focused on our desire to affiliate with other people; believed that developmental change occurs throughout the life span; Proposed 8 stages of development
- 8 Psychosocial Stages
- trust vs mistrust
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