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Developmental psychology is the branch of psychology that studies intraindividual changes and interindividual changes within those intraindividual changes. Its task, as La Bouvie has pointed out, is “not only description but also explication of age-related changes in behaviour in terms of antecedent-consequent relationships.”
Some developmental psychologists study developmental change covering the life span from conception to death. By so ...
To understand the pattern of development, certain fundamental and predictable facts must be taken into consideration. Each of these facts has important implications, which are explained in the following pages.
The first significant fact about development is that early foundations are critical. Attitudes, habits, and patterns of behaviour established during the early years determine to a ...
Because developmental tasks play such an important role in setting guidelines for normal development, anything that interferes with their mastery may be regarded as a potential hazard. There are three very common potential hazards related to developmental tasks. The first is inappropriate expectations; either individuals themselves or the social group may expect the development of behaviour that is impossible at ...
Having known, since early adolescence, the important role appearance plays in social judgements, social acceptance, and leadership, middle-aged people rebel against threats to the status they fear they may lose as their appearance deteriorates.
For the man, there is the added handicap of competition with younger, more vigorous, and more energetic men who tend to judge his capacity to hold ...
There are two characteristics of the life span today that distinguish it from the pattern that existed several generations ago. First, the heavy preponderance of young people no longer exists. Instead, as more and young people no longer exists. Instead, as more and more people live to be older, the proportions of individuals at different age levels becomes increasingly similar ...
The study of population is of major concern to sociologists and social scientists. To sociologists, population is the number of persons occupying a certain geographic area, drawing substance from their habitat, and interacting with one another.
Demographers commonly define population as a collective group of individuals occupying a particular place at a given time. Three key words are involved ...
Amos Hawley (1901) advanced the different ecological processes which account for the changes in towns and cities.
Urban ecological processes refer to patterns of physical changes in the city and the way the people adapt to the changing urban environment. These processes include:
1. Concentration – It refers to the increase of the population in a given ...
The loss of a spouse, whether as a result of death or divorce, presents many adjustments problems for the middle-aged man or woman, but especially for the woman. The middle-aged woman whose husband dies, or who is divorced, experiences extreme feelings of loneliness. This is intensified by frustrations of the normal sexual desires, which are far from dormant, and by ...
Discipline is society’s way of teaching children the moral behaviour approved by the social group. Its goal is to let children know what behaviour is approved and what is disapproved and to motivate them to behave in accordance with these standards.
In discipline, there are three essential elements: rules and laws which serve as guidelines for approved behaviour, punishment for ...
At all ages, companions may be of three different kinds. What they are and what role they play in the socialization of young children are explained below:
Associates
Associates are people who satisfy an individual’s companionship needs by being in the same environment where they can be watched and listened to. There is no direct interaction between ...
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