Factors Influencing Development

Now a days, if we will notice that from birth onwards changes of various kinds are taking place in an individual’s life, which continue even during old age. Over a span of time, a human grows and develops, learns to communi-cate, walk, count, and read and write. The people also learns to distinguish between right and wrong and makes friends, goes through puberty, gets married, rears children, and grows old. Even though we differ from each other, we share many commonalities. This study paper says developmental processes and changes taking place in major periods during the life-span: prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. The journey of mankind in social psychology emphasis of personal understand-ing and self-discovery

Factors Influencing Development

It is observed that some of them have dark colored skins, others have light colored skin-color of hair and eyes are different, some of them are tall, oth-ers shorts, some are quiet or sad while others are talkative or cheerful. Peo-ple also differ with respect to intelligence, learning abilities, memory, and other psychological characteristics besides physical characteristics.

Genetic transmission is very complex, Moat characteristics that we observe in humans are combinations of larger number of genes. Where factors influ-encing development are Genotype, Phenotype and Environmental.

2.1 Context of development

Genetic transmission is very complex, Moat characteristics that we observe in humans are combinations of larger number of genes. Where factors influ-encing development are Genotype, Phenotype and Environmental

Urie Bronfenbrenner’s contextual view of development emphasizes the role of environmental factors in the development of an individual.

• The microsystem is the immediate environment/setting in which the individual lives. It is in these settings where the child directly inter-acts with social agents – the family, peers, teachers, and

Traditionally, the age of retirement was linked to old age. Now that people are living longer, age of retiring from work is changing, and the cut-off point for the definition of “old age” is moving upward. Some of the challenges, which the aged have to cope with include retirement, widowhood, illness, or death in the family. The image of old age is changing in certain ways. Now there are people who have crossed seventy years of age or so and are quite active, energetic, and creative.

The experience of old age is seen or depends on the socioeconomic condi-tions, with health care, attitude of people exceptions. Older adults also need to adjust to changes in the family structure and new roles (grand par-enting) that have to be learnt. Children usually are busy in their careers and families and may set up independent homes. Older adults may depend on their children for financial support and to overcome their loneliness (after children have moved out). This might trigger-off feelings of hopelessness and depression in some people.

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