Long form lecture covering major topics in the Lifespan Development chapter of an Introduction to Psychology course. I cover major psychological developmental theories, including Freud’s psychosexual stages of development, Erik Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development, and Piaget’s Cognitive development theory (and Kohlberg’s moral development). Also discussed various life stages and events within those stages, from infancy (attachment theory) to adolescence, to adulthood. This kind of lecture, or chapter, does little justice to the field, in that it’s an immense field of research within psychology, that one can take numerous classes and earn advanced degrees in developmental psychology. My hope is that students get a general sense of the field and concepts within it.  

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Content Index:  

Definition of lifespan development  

Continuous v Discontinuous development  

Single or multiple courses of development?  

Nature v Nurture  

Theories of Development  

Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory  

Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Theory of Development  

Jean Piaget's Cognitive Theory of Development  

Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development  

Stages of Development (prenatal to adulthood) intro  Prenatal Development  Newborns  

Psychosocial Development: Attachment  Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation Test for Attachment  Parenting Styles  

Adolescence   

Emerging Adulthood  

Adulthood  

Death and Dying 

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's 5 Stages of Grief  

Cultural Influences in death related practices 

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