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Genetic & Prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence & young adulthood, late adulthood
What are the stages of human growth?
Similar all around the world
Sequential, builds on earlier development
Individualized
Irrelated, independent but reinforce one another
Continuous throughout life
Multi-dimensional (biological, cognitive, socio-emotional)
Multi-directional (some aspects increase, others may decrease)
Plastic (changes)
Contextual (biological, historical, cultural)
Development is….
5 areas of human growth and development:
Physical, social, cognitive, emotional and moral
Inherited biologically, determined by genetic blueprints
Nature is…
Formed by the biological and social environmental experiences
Nurture is…
Continuity
Gradual, culmulative change
Discontinuity
Change in stages, abrupt
Developing into someone different than who we were at an earlier stage
Stability and change
The number of years that have passed since a persons birth
Chronological age
Age in terms of biological health, ones functioncal capabilites.
Biological age
Ones capacity to adapt compared to others of the same chronological age.
Psychological age
The social roles and expectations related to a person's age
Social
Frontal Lobe
1
Temporal Lobe
2
Brain stem
3
Cerebellum
4
Occipital Lobe
5
Parietal Lobe
6
Cerebrum
1
Brain stem
2
Midbrain
2.1
Pons
2.2
Medulla oblongata
2.3
Spinal cord
3
Cerebellum
4
Pituitary gland
5
Hypothalamus
6
Thalamus
7
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