DevPs| Overview of DevPsych

Ways in which we remain stable over time or continue to reflect our past

This goal of Developmental Psychology aims to foresee what will people will think or feel in different situations

This goal of Developmental Psychology aims to help develop people towards positive directions by applying what they have learned.

This goal of Developmental Psychology aims to catalogue how people change over time by
carefully observing the behaviour of people of different ages

This goal of Developmental Psychology aims to determine why people develop
as they typically do and why some people develop differently than others.

This type of development is the typical pattern of development in a ll members of a species

This type of development talks about variations in an individual development in rate, direction, or extent of deveopment

Physical: Genetic endowment and basic body structure
Cognitive: Developing to learn and respond to stimuli
Psychosocial: Responds to the mother's voice and have a preference for it

Physical: Motor skills improve, proportions are adultlike
Cognitive: Mental and language improves
Psychosocial: Initiative and indipendence increase

Physical: Senses and body systems operate at varying rates
Cognitive: Comprehension of language develop
Psychosocial: Attachment to parents and others form

Physical: Athletic skills improve
Cognitive: Children begin to think logically but concretely
Psychosocial:Self concept becomes more complex

Physcial: Reproductive maturity
Cognitive: Ability to think abstractly, reasoning develops
Psychosocial: Peer group may exert a positive/negative influence

Physcial: Physical condition peaks, then declines
Cognitive: Education and occupation choices are made
Psychosocial: Most people marry, become parents

Physcial: Women experience menopause
Cognitive: Expertise and problem-solving skills are high
Psychosocial: Launch of children leaving their nest

Physcial: Slow reaction time affects other functions
Cognitive: Intelligence and memory may deteriorate
Psychosocial: Retirement from workforce

MATURATION is the unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes.

Network of parents, children, and other relatives.

Household consisting of two parents, their children.

Combination of economic and social factors of an individual/family (Includes income, occupation, etc.)

People tend to prioritze collaborative goals and view themselves in the context of their social relationships.

A society or group's way of life including customs, traditions, values, etc.

People tend to prioritize personal goals and view themselves as distinct individuals

A group united by ancestry, religion, race, language, or national origins.

Groups with natural or cultural traditions different from the majority of population

Overgeneralization about a cultural group that obscures differences within the group