The study of individual behavior from conception through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle and old age. Determiners of psychological growth: motor, social, emotional, intellectual, language, and personality development are presented.
Prerequisites
PSY 101 with a grade of “C” or higher
Student Learning Outcomes
- Characterize the history and methodology of Developmental Psychology.
- Identify the major theoretical perspectives that have contributed to developmental psychology.
- Describe and identify the genetic beginnings of human life.
- Identify the different stages of prenatal, birth and neonatal development.
- Describe and identify the different physical, cognitive, language, and psychosocial stages during infancy.
- Differentiate between the development stages during preschool and that of infancy and identify developmental stages during the ages of two to six years.
- Characterize the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial stages during middle childhood.
- Identify the psychosocial stages during adolescence.
- Recognize the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial stages of early adulthood and distinguish between those of middle and late adulthood.
- Define the stages during the completion of the full life cycle.