PSY 3003 - Developmental Psychology

• Describe the life span as an ongoing developmental process, or set of processes, involving both continuity and change, by giving examples from the literature, including physical, social, cognitive, and personality development
• Analyze various developmental events from the perspectives of major theories of development such as probabilistic epigenesis, dynamic systems theory, cognitive, sociocultural, social-learning, socioemotional, ecological, and recognize those theories when used by others to analyze events
• Apply the biopsychosocial model to development across the lifespan
• Explain how research contributes to the understanding of development and to evaluate and use research findings appropriately
• Recall important development concepts and milestones and be able to recognize and apply these concepts in various situations
• Formulate relevant questions about developmental processes and events and use standardized techniques for gathering objective answers to these questions

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• Major theories associated with human development
• Prenatal development and birth
• Physical growth and decline across the lifespan
• Piaget, Vygotsky, and information processing approaches to cognitive development
• Language development
• Intelligence
• Socioemotional development
• Development of the self
• Moral development and aggression
• Gender and sexuality
• Diversity of development across the globe
• Death and grieving