PY2106 - Human Development Across the Lifespan

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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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.

Learning Outcomes

• ability to comprehend and evaluate the historical and contemporary conceptual frameworks, principles and theories of lifespan development;
• ability to strengthen ones competence in relating the study of lifespan development to the study of other areas of psychology;
• achieve competence in writing on psychological topics using the stylistic conventions of the American Psychological Association;
• 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.

Prerequisites:	(PY1001 or PY1101) and (PY1002 or PY1102)
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	PY2093

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	art-kal.
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours 24 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Kerry McBain.
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours 24 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
, , Study Period 39
Census Date 22-Jul-2005
Face to face teaching 25-Jul-2005 to 02-Sep-2005
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Kerry McBain.
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours 24 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).

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