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Human Development

Physcical, cognitive, social and emotional develoopment from conception through death. Emphasis upon factors influencing development of personality.
Prerequisites: PSYC 201

Transitions Throughout the Life Span:
This course embraces academic theory, scientific discoveries, and practical applications as it presents developmental processes in three distinct categories or domains-biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial. As they complete this course, students should gain a complete understanding of their own developmental past, present, and future.

Textbook: The Developing Person Through the Life Span by Kathleen Stassen Berger (Worth Publishers) Sixth Edition
Telecourse Student Guide

Twenty-six Lessons

Lesson 1: Introduction: Theories of Development


Lesson 2: Developmental Study as a Science


Lesson 3: The Beginnings: Heredity and Environment


Lesson 4: The Beginnings: Prenatal Development and Birth


Lesson 5: The First Two Years: Biosocial Development


Lesson 6: The First Two Years: Cognitive Development


Lesson 7: The First Two Years: Psychosocial Development


Lesson 8: The Play Years: Biosocial Development


Lesson 9: The Play Years: Cognitive Development


Lesson 10: The Play Years: Psychosocial Development


Lesson 11: The School Years: Biosocial Development


Lesson 12: The School Years: Cognitive Development


Lesson 13: The School Years: Psychosocial Development


Lesson 14: Adolescence: Biosocial Development


Lesson 15: Adolescence: Cognitive Development


Lesson 16: Adolescence: Psychosocial Development


Lesson 17: Early Adulthood: Biosocial Development


Lesson 18: Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development


Lesson 19: Early Adulthood: Psychosocial


Lesson 20: Middle Adulthood: Biosocial Development Development


Lesson 21: Middle Adulthood: Cognitive Development


Lesson 22: Middle Adulthood: Psychosocial Development


Lesson 23: Late Adulthood: Biosocial Development


Lesson 24: Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development


Lesson 25: Late Adulthood: Psychosocial Development


Lesson 26: Epilogue: Death and Dying

 

 

 

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