Psychology ATAR

Unit 1:

Developmental Stages:

LO: Describe developmental stages across lifespan by completing comparison table.

Glossary:

  • Prenatal

  • Infancy

  • Childhood

  • Adolescent

  • Early childhood

  • Middle age

  • Older age

  • Physical development

  • Cognitive development

  • Social development

  • Emotional development

Comparison Table:

Stage

Physical development

Cognitive development

Emotional/social development

Infancy (around 0-2 years)

  • Rapid body/brain growth.

  • Rapid gross motor skill/voluntary muscle control improvement (crawling, rolling over, walking).

Childhood (preschool)

  • Rapid brain development.

  • Hand preference/Fine/Gross motor skill development/refinement.

  • Large increase in language understanding/use - vocabulary includes ~200 words by ~3 years, ~19 000 by ~11 years. 

Childhood (school)

Adolescence

Early adulthood (20-40 years)

Middle age (40-65 years)

Older age (65+ years)