Life Span Development Thoughts

Week 4. Montante. Ch. 6 & 7. Early & Middle Childhood           Chapter 6 leads into physical and motor development. It explains how boys and girls show about the same rate of growth during these years, but it all differs from child to child. Early childhood are between the ages of 2-6. Growth in early childhood continues at a slower pace than in infancy. Which I see true as each month leading to the first year a baby learns a new skill and each month is something new. In early childhood it is not the same. Yes they will learn something new every day, but it is not tracked month by month. During this stage they grow 12 inches and at least 5 pounds per year. Some of the highlights from this chapter would be the brain development. As their brain is developing they understand new things. They are visible to so many amounts of information that it is astounding to even believe.     They grow motor skills that are...

Week 3. Montante. Ch. 3, 4, and 5 Lifespan   In chapter 3, we are focusing on fertilization occur, the stages of the parental period, the types of test and precautions. Once we see a baby automatically we see tiny toes and chubby cheeks. However, what we do not see is how exactly mom and dad came out to make this beautiful creation. Of course we know how it happen, but what is amazing is the biology behind it. We first are introduced with chromosomes, DNA, and genes. Each three of these play a very significant role in making a human life. Chromosomes are a strand of DNA that is encrypted with genes. Most of the cells have 22 pairs and also the two sex chromosomes (XX females & XY males) which brings out our total of 46. Then we have our DNA which contains our genetic information. Genes are a piece of heredity that is transferred from a parent to their child and that is held on to define some characteristics of the child. Alternatively, hereditary abnormalities ca...

Week 2. Theories of Development: Interpreting the Lifespan         In this chapter we are introduced to a couple of theorist Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner, Pavlov, Bandura, and Maslow. Each of them had their own idea of their interpreting the lifespan. Theories are important for constructing meaning out of facts.       F reud was presented first in the chapter. Through his work, he is the most known by his work. He came to believe that childhood experiences and unconscious desires influenced behavior. In Figure 2.1 on page 30, are Fredian stages of development. Each one has a specific age range. They are categorized as oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. He then argues that at different stages of a person's development personality is influenced by three distinct structures of the mind: the id, the ego, and the superego.       Next is Erikson. He developed a psychosocia...

Week 1- Lifespan Development: An introduction         Lifespan development is an examination of the biological, cognitive/psychological, and social changes that occur over the course of a human life. The way I view it is age related changes that occur from birth throughout a persons life until old age. There are developmental periods of the lifespan starting with prenatal all the way into late adulthood. Lifespan is important because it identifies the interconnections between earlier and later events. What I felt that was interesting while reading this chapter was thinking about my own life. All the changes that marked my life make up a process known as development.        While reading the changing views of childhood section (pg. 9). A quote stood out to me, "If historians wish to understand children of the past, they must first discover how adults have viewed the young (Heywood, 2001). The reason why this...