LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY:

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CHAPTER 1
LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY AN INTRODUCTION
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Thinking About Lifespan Development

• Why Study the Lifespan?
• To offer an organized account of development
  across the lifespan
• To identify the interconnections between earlier
  and later events

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Thinking About Lifespan Development

• Why Study the Lifespan?
• To account for the mechanisms responsible for
  lifespan development
• To specify the biological, psychological, and
  environmental factors that shape an individuals
  development

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Thinking About Lifespan Development

• What is Development?
• Factors
• Constitutional
• Social
• Economic
• Cultural

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Changing Views of the Lifespan

• Children Through the Years
• The Greeks and the Romans
• A changing concept of childhood
• The New World

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Changing Views of the Lifespan

• Adolescence A Time of Storm, Stress or Calm?
• Analyzing adolescence changing perspectives
• Adolescent sexuality
• Adolescent risk behaviors

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Changing Views of the Lifespan

• The Adult Years
• A lifelong process
• Multidirectional
• Selective
• Plastic
• Embedded in history

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Changing Views of the Lifespan

• Changing Perspectives on Aging
• Physical health
• Speed of response
• Attitude

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Different Views of Lifespan

• A Biological Perspective
• Critical role of genes
• A Bioecological Perspective
• Reciprocal interactions

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The Importance of Biopsychosocial Interactions

• Understanding Childrens Cultures
• Superficial level facts
• Intermediate level central behaviors
• Significant level values, beliefs, and norms

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The Importance of Biopsychosocial Interactions

• Contributors to Biopsychosocial Interactions
• Biological genes
• Psychological cognition, language, moral
• Social relationships, stress

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Issues in Lifespan Development

• Continuity versus Discontinuity
• Stability versus Change
• Nature versus Nurture

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Developmental Research

• Data Collection Techniques
• Descriptive studies
• Manipulative experiments
• Naturalistic experiments

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Developmental Research

• Time-Variable Designs
• One-time, one-group studies
• Longitudinal studies
• Cross-sectional studies
• Sequential