Life Span

Life Span Perspective

Psy 375

April 15, 2013

Dr. Warren

Wilson

Perhaps you are or will be parent or teacher. Responsibility for children is or will be a part of your everyday life. The more you learn about them, the better you can deal with them. Perhaps you can gain some insight into your own history as an infant, s child, an adolescent, or a young adult. Perhaps you wanted to know more about what your life will be like as you grow through the adult years as a middle-aged adult, as an adult in old age, for example. Whatever your reasons, you will discover that the study of life-span development is provocative, is intriguing, and is filled with information about who we are, how we have come to be this way, and where our future will take us.

In this paper, which it will explain the life span perspective of development. It will report the following items, explaining the life span perspective of development. Summarize two theories of life span development and explain how heredity and the environment interact to produce individual differences in development.

Lifespan development is the field to study that examines patients of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur throughout the entire lifespan. Life span development takes a scientific approach. Researchers in Life span development test their assumptions about the nature and course of human development by applying scientific methods. Lifespan development focuses on human development.

Lifespan perspective is in connection by human advance, and is lifetime. According to life-span development expert Paul Baltes (1987, 2000), the life span perspective involves these characteristic beliefs: Development if lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, contextual, multidisciplinary, and involves growth, maintenance and regulations. Lifespan development also has five characteristics useful for understanding any age of human development (Berger, 2011). The life-span perspective, as set...