PSYC 1210 - Lifespan Development

Introduction to Developmental Psychology: Tenets of Developmental Science (5%)

Theoretical Perspectives: Major Historical and Current Developmental Theories (10%)

Death and Dying: Developmental Perspectives, Facing Death, Care for The Dying, Grief, and Mourning (5%)

Physical, Cognitive, and Socio-emotional Development in Infancy, Early and Middle Childhood, Adolescence, and Emerging, Early, Middle, and Late Adulthood (40%)

Prenatal Development: Major Changes and Hazards (5%)

Non-Experimental Research; Developmental Research Designs; Ethics (5%)

Nature and Nurture: Mechanisms of Heredity, Genetic and Chromosomal Disorders, Interplay of Heredity and Environment (5%)

Birth and the Newborn (5%)

Learning Outcomes
Compare and contrast the main theories and issues of human lifespan development: learning, cognitive, contextual, and socio-biological.

Analyze how biological, neurological, cognitive, cultural and socio-emotional interact with each other in a developmental context.

Analyze ethical perspectives related to legal, social, and scientific issues in human development.

Illustrate how developmental psychological principles apply to daily life.

Evaluate the quality of developmental psychology information from multiple sources.

Identify biological, neurological, cognitive, cultural, and socio-emotional processes associated with developmental periods.

Demonstrate familiarity with the scientific method and research methodology used by developmental psychologists.

Describe developmental challenges and psycho-pathologies that occur throughout the lifespan.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci

7A - Human Diversity