LA 255 - Lifespan Psychology

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Monroe College-New Rochelle

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3 credits This advanced course examines human lifespan development. It covers the psychological development of human life from conception to death. Physical, cognitive, and social modes of development are explored in the stages of infancy, preschool, middle childhood, adolescence and adulthood, and old age. The textbook provides an historical record of the field while focusing on current research findings and trends. The course explores the psychological approaches to development by theorists such as Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg. Pertinent and contemporary topics such as autism, adolescent suicide, midlife crisis, and Alzheimer's disease are studied and classic psychological studies in this field are examined PREREQUISITE: LA-101

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3.00

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Unaccounted for code

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