1. WELCOME TO PSY2004
Human Development
with
Dr. Machovec
“Dr. Mac”

2. How to find the course syllabus
Go to the Lake Sumter College website
Click FACULTY AND STAFF
Click VIEW WEBSITES
Click PSYCHOLOGY
Click MACHOVEC
Click DOWNLOADS, to SYLLABUS
OPEN, then PRINT it

3. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Describe and discuss how psychology uses scientific methods
Realize and further develop respect and understanding for individual differences, critical thinking, and the complexity of human behavior
Describe and discuss concepts and research data of cognitive, physical, and social development

4. What’s in a name? Human Development or Developmental Psychology
Is this course
Human Development or
Developmental Psychology
Life Span Psychology?

5. Developmental psychology vs life span psychology
formerly ended with middle childhood or adolescence
Life span psychology covers conception to aging and death, the whole life cycle

6. Experiencing the Lifespan
Chapter 1
The People and The Field

7. Psychology: Definition?
… the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

8. “Normal” and normative
Normative and non-normative … predictable vs unpredictable
developmental events
“Normal” and norms … means of grouped research
data; deviations are not normal

9. Developmental Contexts
Cohort (your birth group)
Socioeconomic Status (SES)
Education, income, lifestyle
Culture
Gender

10. “New” Life Stages
Young-old (60s-70s)
Old-old (80s +)

11. Comparative National Culture
Individualistic
United States Canada England
Collectivist
China Russia North Korea

12. Nature and Nurture
Nature is heredity
Nurture is the environment

13. Personality Theory Types and traits
Oldest (e.g., Hippocrates, 300 BCE)
Psychoanalysis/psychodynamic
Freud (later, Erikson, Bowlby)
Behaviorism
Watson (later, Pavlov, Skinner)
Humanistic
Maslow, Rogers

14. Personality dynamics Temperament … emotional responsivity
Person-environment fit
… how well the environment
accommodates individual
differences

15. Developmental Theories
Cognitive (Jean Piaget)
Psychosexual (Sigmund Freud)
Psychosocial (Erik Erikson)
Systems (Urie Bronfenbrenner)
Needs (Abraham Maslow)
Moral development (Lawrence Kohlberg)

16. Piaget’s Cognitive Stages
1. Sensorimotor (birth to age 2) 2. Preoperational (age 2-7) 3. 4.

17. Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
1. Oral (1st year)
2. Anal (age 2-3) 3. 4. 5.

18. Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages
1. Trust vs mistrust (1st year) 2. Autonomy vs shame/doubt (age 1-2) 3. Initiative vs guilt (age 3-6)

19. Bronfenbrenner’s Systems Theory
The child is in the center force fields that shape behavior and personality such as: Family (parents, siblings, relatives) Friends Teachers and neighbors Neighborhood and community City, state, region, nation

20. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
1. Survival (birth-infancy) 2. Safety (infancy) 3. Support (childhood) 4. 5.

21. Kohlberg’s levels of Moral Development
1. Pre-conventional (childhood) 2. Conventional (teens) 3. Post-conventional (adulthood)

22. Research Methodology
QUANTITATIVE High N: large samples, grouped data QUALITATIVE N = 1, in-depth case study CROSS SECTIONAL vs LONGITUDINAL TWIN STUDIES