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Studying the Life Span: Five Characteristics

Studying the Life Span: Five Characteristics, cont.. Change from conception to death

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Studying the Life Span: Five Characteristics

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    1. Studying the Life Span: Five Characteristics The study of human development is the science that seeks to understand how and why all kinds of people change over time how and why they remain the same the generalities and the specifics Focus is on all kinds of people age, socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, background, culture, and nationality

    2. Studying the Life Span: Five Characteristics, cont. Change from conception to death—the five characteristics A Life-Span Perspective multidirectional—nonlinear progression (1) multicontextual—a number of contexts (2) multicultural—many cultural settings (3) multidisciplinary—many academic disciplines contribute data (4) plasticity—change through the life span (5)

    3. Multidirectional (1) Each aspect of life is multidirectional physical health, intellectual growth, and social interaction up, down, stable or erratic Dynamic Systems process of continual change within a person or group, in which each change is connected systematically to every other development in each individual and every society

    4. Growth in height and weight is not linear Fluctuations in body weight are affected by many other changes appetite, nutrition, family, stress, exercise, culture, food supply, and climate historical changes can have powerful effects “obesity epidemic” in the U.S. today Physical Growth

    5. Butterfly effect—the idea that a small action or event may set off a series of changes culminating in a major event Opposite Idea a large change may have little or no effect Family Dynamics influence vulnerability or resiliency strong bond with loving caregiver can protect against adversity of many kinds Effects, Large and Small

    6. Humans develop in many contexts that influence development physical and family focus on three facets of social context historical, socioeconomic, and cultural Multicontextual (2)

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