Università Roma Tre

The course will describe the human development – from pregnancy to senility – through the theoretical models of developmental psychology and ecology and the most recent empirical evidence. In particular, the lessons will focus on physical and motor, perceptual and cognitive, linguistic and communicative, social and emotional development. Transitions from one phase to another will also be addressed, describing the challenges, processes and resources in order to understand the impact that individual, social and cultural variables have on the development of different trajectories throughout life span.
The presentation of the contents described above will be structured in the following sections:
1) the objectives and questions of developmental and educational psychology; traditional theories of life cycle development and ecological theories of human development; the role of individual differences in development; methods of investigation in developmental psychology;
2) physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic and communicative, social and emotional development;
3) the transitions, challenges and resources that characterize each developmental phase throughout life span.

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Kloep, M., Hendry, L. B., Sica, S. S., Aleni Sestito, L. (2021). Lo sviluppo nel ciclo di vita. Cambiamenti, sfide e transizioni. Bologna: il Mulino.
Pallini, S. (2008). Psicologia dell’attaccamento. Processi interpersonali e valenze educative. Milano: Franco Angeli (Chapters 8 and 9 are excluded).