Human Development: Understanding Growth and Change
Development is the study of human growth throughout life, encompassing physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and personality aspects. Scientific study seeks to explain why and how individuals evolve over time, impacting fields like psychology, sociology, education, and health care. Developmental psychology delves into systematic psychological, emotional, and perception changes across the lifespan, focusing on cognitive, motivational, and social functioning alterations. Human development is divided into physical, cognitive, and psycho-social domains, reflecting the complexities of individual evolution.
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Human Development Dr.Muhammad Ibrar
What Is Development Development describes the growth of humans throughout the lifespan, from conception to death. The scientific development seeks to understand and explain how and why people change throughout life. This includes all aspects of human growth, including physical, emotional, intellectual, social, perceptual, and personality development. study of human
Contd. The scientific study of development is important not only to psychology, but also to sociology, education, and health care. Development does not just involve the biological and physical aspects of growth, but also the cognitive and social aspects associated with development throughout life.
Developmental Psychology Developmental psychology is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. The branch of psychology that studies how growth and physiological/ psychological/ social changes take place over the life span
Contd. Also called Life-span Psychology, it is concerned with the changes in cognitive, motivational, psychophysiological, and social functioning that occur throughout the human life span. During the 19th and early developmental psychologists were concerned primarily with child psychology. 20th centuries,
Human Development The study of human development is the study of how and why people change over time, as well as how and why they remain the same. The human development is often separated into three domains(fields) The physical development Cognitive development Psycho-social development
Physical Development Physical development concerns the physical maturation of an individual's body until it reaches the adult physique. It includes all the growth and change that occur in a person s body. Changes in height, weight and bones as well as in muscles, glands, the brain and sense organs are all part of physical development. Motor skills including everything from learning to walk to learning to write are also part of this development.
Cognitive Development Cognitive development is primarily concerned with the ways in which infants and children acquire, develop, and use internal mental capabilities such as problem solving, memory, and language. Includes all the mental processes that are used to obtain knowledge or to become aware of the environment. It can include perception, imagination, judgment, memory, thinking and language.
Psycho-Social Development Focuses on personality and social development which includes emotions, relationships with other peoples. personality and
