Psychology and Development
Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Racial and ethnic identity and development. 3. The origins of attachment theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. 4. Theory of mind in normal development and Autism. 5. The scope and development of social psychology aim and learning outcomes. 6. Psychology: o the dynamics between growth and decline. 8. Development of socio-moral meaning making: domains, categories and perspective taking. 9. Impact of the cry of the infant at risk on psychosocial development. 19. Adolescent spiritual development. 11. Positive development in adolescence: the development and role of international self-regulation. 12. Early childhood and long-term development. 13. Developmental psychology: incorporating Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories in classrooms. 14. The social determinants of early child development. Bibliography. Index.
Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire life span. This field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other psycho-physiological processes cognitive development involving areas such as problem solving, moral understanding, and conceptual understanding; language acquisition; social, personality, and emotional development and self concept and identity formation.
Developmental psychology includes issues such as the extent to which development occurs through the gradual accumulation of knowledge versus stage like development, or the extent to which children are born with innate mental structures versus learning through experience. Many researchers are interested in the interaction between personal characteristics, the individuals behavior, and environmental factors including social context, and their impact on development, others take a more narrowly focused approach.
