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.

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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