Developmental Psychology

Continuity morphs through stages—growing up, raising children, enjoying a career, and, eventually, life’s final stage, which will demand my presence. As I wend my way through this cycle of life and death, I am mindful that life is a journey, a continuing process of development, seeded by nature and shaped by nurture, animated by love and focused by work, begun with wide-eyed curiosity and completed, for those blessed to live to a good old age, with peace and never-ending hope.

Across the life span, we grow from newborn to toddler, from toddler to teenager, and from teenager to mature adult. At each stage of life there are physical, cognitive, and social milestones. We begin with prenatal development and the newborn. Then we’ll turn our attention to infancy and childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

Myers' Psychology

Readings

Module 42, Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn, page 440-49.

Module 43, Infancy and Childhood: Physical Development, page 450-53.

Module 44, Infancy and Childhood: Cognitive Development, 454-64.

Module 45, Infancy and Childhood: Social Development, pages 465-75.

Module 46, Gender Development, pages 476-84.

Module 47, Parents, Peers, and Early Experiences, 485-88.

Module 48, Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development, pages 489-94.

Module 49, Adolescence: Social Development and Emerging Adulthood, pages 495-500.

Module 50, Sexual Development, pages 501-13.

Module 51, Adulthood: Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development, pages 514-27.

Module 42

Module 43

Module 44

Module 45

Module 46

Module 47

Module 48

Module 49