Human development across the life span
Developmental milestones, Piaget, Erikson, attachment, adolescence, adulthood and ageing.
14 pages
Life stage
- Adolescence: development and the HEADSSS interviewAdolescence brings puberty, abstract thinking and the search for identity
- Adulthood and middle ageAdulthood brings work, partnership, parenting and caring for others
- Milestones from 1 to 3 yearsBetween 1 and 3 years the child walks, runs and climbs, moves from single words to short…
- Milestones from 4 years to school ageFrom 4 years the child tells stories, plays by rules, holds a pencil and gets ready for school…
- Milestones of the first yearIn the first year a baby goes from lifting the head to standing, from crying to first words, and…
- Normal psychological ageing vs dementiaWith age, thinking slows and recall takes longer, but knowledge and daily independence remain
Theory
- Attachment: Bowlby, Ainsworth and the attachment stylesAttachment is the bond a child forms with caregivers
- Erikson's psychosocial stagesErikson described eight life stages, each with a social conflict to resolve, from trust in…
- Moral development (Kohlberg)Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning grows from avoiding punishment, to following social…
- Piaget's stages of cognitive developmentPiaget described how children think differently at each age: by acting, by symbols, by concrete…
Concept
- Developmental milestones: domains, corrected age and red flagsMilestones are skills most children reach by a given age; they are tracked by domain, with…
- Language development and speech red flagsChildren understand before they speak: cooing, babbling, first words near 1 year and sentences…
- Primitive reflexes and when they disappearNewborns have automatic reflexes from the brainstem and spinal cord; they fade as the cortex…
- TemperamentTemperament is a baby's inborn style of reacting: how active, regular, adaptable and intense it…
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