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PY2106:03
Human Development Across the Lifespan
Dr N Caltabiano (Cairns campus).
This subject provides a comprehensive coverage of research, theory, practices and issues in developmental psychology. A chronological framework is used to examine human life from conception to death, covering prenatal development and development during infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The inter-relatedness of theory and research is emphasised and the implications this carries for the application of empirical evidence to everyday life. Students will be provided with the opportunity to examine some of the issues including: the beginning of life, birth, cognitive growth, language development, the impact of child-care, friendships and peer influences, adolescent identity formation, moral development, gender differentiation, parenting, marriage and partnering, career development, ageing and death and dying.
ability to comprehend and evaluate the historical and contemporary conceptual frameworks, principles and theories of lifespan development;
develop critical evaluation skills through the examination of research efforts in lifespan development;
identify and describe the types of research techniques employed to study human development and discuss the relative strengths and limitations of these;