Lifespan Development

The way people grow, change, and stay the same throughout their lives from conception to death

Development Periods

the timeframe in a person’s life is characterized by certain features

• Prenatal Period: Conception to birth

  • rapid development, after conception a single organism grows and multiplies. Most basic body structures develop

• Infancy: Birth to 18 - 24 months

• Early Childhood: 2 - 5 years old

• Middle and Late Childhood: 6 - 11 years old

• Adolescence: 10 - 18 years old

• Emerging Adulthood: 18 - 25 years old

• Early Adulthood: 20s - 30s

• Middle Adulthood: 40s - 65 years old

• Late Adulthood: 60s to death

  • review of life

Development

• Culture

• Multidimensional

• Multidirectional

• Plastic

• Multidisciplinary

• Multiply Contexts

Issues

• Continuity vs Discontinuity

• Active vs Passive

• Stability vs Change

Processes

Provide a framework for describing and understanding an individuals development