This course provides insight into aspects of human development across the lifespan.

Weekly one hour lectures

None

100% written assignment, completed and submitted in a group.

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. For non Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

This course explores development and its diversity across the lifespan including childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. It explores brain development, social and emotional development, cognitive development and their necessary interactions and the impact of factors such as culture and context on the interplay of these developmental strands.

By the end of the course students will be able to :

■ Evaluate data collecting procedures in developmental psychology, especially in complex and vulnerable cohorts

■ Evaluate evidence from a range of empirical studies on age-related change at key stages through the life span from prenatal development through childhood, to adolescence, adulthood and into old age.

■ Discuss the evidence for risk and protective factors in development

■ Discuss the interplay between genetics and environment on development

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.