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Oct 23, 2026
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PSYC 2235 - Lifespan Development
Credits: 4
Catalog Description
This course serves as an introduction to the science of lifespan psychology emphasizing physical, psychological, cognitive, and social development from conception through death. The concern is with those aspects of human behavior that change from childhood to death and with the factors that account for those changes. Students who take this course are advised not to take PSYC 2215 or PSYC 2225 because of an overlap in content with that course.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): PSYC 1110
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 05B: History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Goal 08: Global Perspective
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Compare and contrast the main theories and issues of human lifespan development: learning, cognitive, contextual, and sociobiological.
- Identify biological, neurological, cognitive, cultural, and socio-emotional processes associated with developmental periods.
- Analyze how biological, neurological, cognitive, cultural, and socio-emotional interact with each other in a developmental context.
- Demonstrate familiarity with the scientific method and research methodology used by developmental psychologists.
- Evaluate the quality of developmental psychology information from multiple sources.
- Describe the developmental challenges and psychopathologies that may occur throughout the lifespan.
- Illustrate how developmental psychological principles apply to daily life.
- Analyze ethical perspectives related to legal, social, and scientific issues in human development.
- Examine lifespan development across a range of historical periods and cultures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious, and linguistic differences.
- Analyze specific international issues related to developmental psychology.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Introduction to Developmental Psychology
- Research Methods in Developmental Psychology
- The scientific method
- Experimental and non-experimental research
- Cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-sequential designs
- Research ethics
- Theoretical Perspectives
- Nature and Nurture
- Mechanisms of heredity
- Genetic and chromosomal disorders
- Interplay of heredity and environment
- Prenatal Development
- Major developmental changes
- Hazards to prenatal development
- Birth and the newborn
- Physical, Cognitive, and Socioemotional Development in
- Infancy
- Early Childhood
- Middle Childhood
- Adolescence
- Emerging Adulthood
- Early Adulthood
- Middle Adulthood, and
- Late Adulthood
- Death and Dying
- Developmental perspectives on death
- Facing death
- Care for the dying
- Grief and mourning
- Global and cultural influences on lifespan development
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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