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life span human development (5th ed)
Belmont,ca Thomson
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Life-Span Human Development
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Undoubtedly, life-span development involves the changes occurring systematically in
the human body, including cognitive, psychosocial functioning, and physical changes. It is
influenced by the social context in which a person finds himself in, age grades and norms as
well as social clocks. Nature and nurture play a significant role in development as their
interactions influence a maturation, development or the lack of it. However, lifespan
development assumes that development occurs throughout a person’s life, can take many
directions, involves losses and gains present at every stage, and is affected by historical and
cultural contexts. Interacting causal factors also influence it.
Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory and Erikson’s Neo-Freudian psychoanalytic theories
play a critical role in the study of development. Freud’s theory suggests that humans are
driven by inborn instincts which are unconscious. Freud determined that a person’s
personality is influenced by the id, ego and the superego. Also, he demonstrated biological
needs fuel a person’s development; however, societal influences, such as parents influence
how a child deals with conflicts occurring in and outside his body. Unlike Freud, Erikson
emphasized that development is a result of biological needs and urges and social urges. He
developed the eight psychosocial stages namely; initiative, trust, int...
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