Lifespan Development

Lumen Learning

Edition Editor: Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose, Ph.D.

Introduction to Lifespan Development

Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.

Faculty members may readily adapt the course’s OER content to include new developments and research to equip students with what they need to have success in their sociological journey.

Contributors

This course, based on Lifespan Psychology by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the Noba Project, OpenStax Psychology, and additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and:

• Sarah Carter
• Margaret Clark-Plaskie
• Daniel Dickman
• Tera Jones
• Julie Lazzara
• Stephanie Loalada
• John R. Mather
• Sonja Ann Miller
• Nancee Ott
• Jessica Traylor

What’s New?

This new edition of Lifespan Development includes the following significant improvements and enhancements:

• Improved course organization 
  • Content is organized around specific, granular learning outcomes, which are listed at the top of each page.
  • Practice questions, try it questions, and quiz questions all align with learning outcomes.
• Improved course content
  • Course content was significantly enhanced with greater coverage, more examples, news, and research.
• “Try It” embedded practice questions for every learning outcome. This means that students learn about concepts and then immediately check their understanding with applied practice.
• “Watch It” embedded videos that explain and reiterate key concepts throughout the course.
• Discussions and Assignments for every module

As a Waymaker course, this is customizable and delivered with user-friendly personalized learning tools to strengthen engagement and student success. There are formative self-check assessments ​and​ summative quiz questions that can be imported directly into the LMS.

About Lumen

Lumen Learning’s mission is to enable unprecedented learning for all students.

We do this by using open educational resources (OER) to create well-designed and low-cost course materials that replace expensive textbooks. Because learning is about more than affordability and access, we also apply learning science insights and efficacy research to develop learning activities that are engineered to improve subject mastery, course completion and retention.

If you’d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please Contact Us.

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