Lifespan Development

Catalog description

This class provides an overview of developmental issues across the life span. The overall goal is to explore the social-emotional and cognitive psychological underpinnings of human functioning from infancy to old age. Among the topics that will be covered are: life-span attachment issues (e.g., early parent-child relationships); developmental psychopathology (i.e., risk and resilience); normative and atypical emotional development; personality development; different approaches to cognitive functioning; and a general focus on developmental continuities and discontinuities.