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$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
All courses include:
eTextbooks
2 to 3-day turnaround for grading
Multiple chances to improve your grade
On-demand tutoring & writing center
Student support 7 days a week
Lifespan Development
$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
About This Course
ACE Approved 2025
Our Lifespan Development online course provides a general survey of human development from conception through death, including key concepts, stages, and theories from developmental science. Developmental changes in major areas of human development including biological, physical, cognitive, emotional, and social are explored.
What You'll Learn
Define key issues, stages, and theories in developmental science from a lifespan perspective.
Identify key biological, physical, cognitive, emotional, and social factors that influence human development across the lifespan.
Explain major methods of data collection and research design in lifespan developmental psychology.
Apply key concepts from developmental psychology to personal experiences.
Compare and contrast major developmental theories about key tasks in stages of human development.
Integrate reflective thought and scientific reasoning to develop novel and relevant research questions.
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Students will use critical thinking and creativity to evaluate existing developmental science research and to explore creating their own novel research questions.
There are no prerequisites to take Lifespan Development.
| Topic | Subtopics |
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| Checkpoint 1: Lifespan Psychology and Developmental Theories |
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| Checkpoint 2: Genetic, Prenatal, and Perinatal Health |
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| Checkpoint 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers (Birth-Age 3) |
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| Checkpoint 4: Social and Emotional Development in Infants and Toddlers (Birth-Age 3) |
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| Checkpoint 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood (Ages 3-6) |
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| Checkpoint 6: Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood (Ages 3-6) |
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| Checkpoint 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood (Ages 7-12) |
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| Checkpoint 8: Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood (Ages 7-12) |
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| Checkpoint 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence (Ages 12-18) |
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| Checkpoint 10: Social and Emotional Development in Adolescence (Ages 12-18) |
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| Checkpoint 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood (Ages 18-29) |
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| Checkpoint 12: Social and Emotional Development in Early Adulthood (Ages 18-29) |
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| Checkpoint 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood (Ages 30-59) |
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| Checkpoint 14: Social and Emotional Development in Middle Adulthood (Ages 30-59) |
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| Checkpoint 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood (Ages 60-Beyond) |
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| Checkpoint 16: Social and Emotional Development in Late Adulthood (Ages 60-Beyond) |
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| Checkpoint 17: Death, Dying, and Grieving |
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Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 4 Benchmarks
- 2 Capstones
- 17 Checkpoints
No need to track down a textbook; the readings are built right into this course. We adapted the lessons from the following source:
Clark, M. A., Douglas, M., & Choi, J. (2018, March 28). Lifespan Development. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/details/books/lifespan-development
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