Life-Span Human Development

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And the 46-year old may have acquaintances, but rely more on family members to do things with and confide in. That means that we won’t just learn about one particular age period by itself; we will learn about each age period, recognizing how it is related to both previous developments and later developments. Baltes argues that a dynamic interaction of these factors is what influences an individual’s development.

The dimensions of cognitive decline are partially reversible, however, because the brain retains the lifelong capacity for plasticity and reorganization of cortical tissue. Consider friendship—a 6-year-old may think that a friend is someone with whom they can play and have fun.Finally, the work of Darwin, the British biologist famous for his theory of evolution, led others to suggest that development proceeds through evolutionary recapitulation, with many human behaviors having their origins in successful adaptations in the past. It is based on the idea that humans process the information they receive, rather than merely respond to stimuli.

Developmental theories provide a set of guiding principles and concepts that describe and explain human development.Our concerns are such because of who we are socially, where we live, and when we live; they are part of a social climate and set of realities that surround us. e., there is one course of development) or does development follow a different course for each child, depending on the child’s specific genetics and environment (i. This is a very interesting and meaningful course because it is about each of us and those with whom we live and work. In comparison to the control group, who received no training and showed no significant change in memory function, the experimental training group displayed a marked enhancement in memory that was sustained at the 3-month follow-up period.