Lernmaterialien für Development & Mental Health an der Radboud University

• Prenatal period (conception- birth)
• Infancy (1-1 1/2 year)
• Preschool period (1 1/2 year- 4years)
• Young age (5-7)
• Later school age (8-12)
• Adolescence (13-20)
• Young adulthood (21-30)
• Middle adulthood (30-60)
• Late adulthood (61- death)

• It is from 21 to 30 years old.
• Consolidation of changes that have occurred earlier 
• More detailed knowledge and applied skills

r a study faithfully captures a pattern of behavior that would occur in the normal circumstances of childhood.

• cultural variations influ- ence patterns of development
• consistency across cultures

ask how and why a particular trait, whether it is a body part or a behavior, emerged over successive generations of a population through the process of natural selection

focus on understanding internal mental states and processes

focus on observable behaviors and how they are shaped by external factors over the course of development

draws on methods and models from several disciplines— psychology, computer science, philosophy, neuroscience, and linguistics—to ask how specific skills or kinds of knowl- edge emerge and change.

most psychological questions, inquiries about develop- ment naturally seem to lead to comparisons across species, which are the main focus of the comparative perspective

• Perceptual development: Ability to pick up info with your senses and processing sensory info by other people 
• Development of action:  Change of the ability to move their limbs in the world and purposefully guide their body
• Cognitive development: Change of people during lifespan in the ways they understand and use info.
• Moral development: Emergence of values occurs in children and the development of moral and immoral behaviour.
• Social Development: the wide range of formation and Change of relationships between people