Life Span Perspective of Human Development

LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVE
OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVE
• The perspective that the process of development is
multidimensional, lifelong , multidisciplinary and contextual.
• It involves the maintenance, growth and the regulations (Bogin,
2015)
• It is constructed through the socio cultural, biological and individual
factors that works together.
• “DEVELOPMENT IS A LIFELOMG PROCESS”

HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
• Growth in the context of human refers to the increase in the size of
individual.
• Development refers to the procedure by which an individual develops his or
her skills related to psychomotor.
• There are 4 stages within the period of human growth. That is from the birth
to adolescence.
1. Infancy
2. Childhood
3. Juvenile
4. adolescence

THEORIES RELATED TO HUMAN GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT
• The developmental psychology is that branch that studies with how
individuals grow and alter over the entire course of the lifetime.
• The scientific growth of the development and growth of human is not
only important to psychology but also for sociology, education,
biology, anthropology, healthcare and education (Green, 2016).
• The three major theories of human growth and development are:
1. Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development
2. Kohlberg's theory of moral development
3. Erickson’s stages of development