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Lifespan Development<\/span><\/h1>\r\n

Lumen Learning<\/h2>\r\n

Edition Editor: Nicole Arduini-Van Hoose, Ph.D.<\/h2>\r\n

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Introduction to Lifespan Development<\/h2>\r\nLifespan 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.\r\n

Faculty members may readily adapt the course\u2019s OER content to include new developments and research to equip students with what they need to have success in their sociological journey.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Contributors<\/h2>\r\nThis course, based on\u00a0Lifespan Psychology<\/a>\u00a0by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the\u00a0Noba Project,<\/a>\u00a0OpenStax Psychology<\/a>, and additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and:\r\n