| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Lifespan Development Psychology |
| Unit ID: | PSYCB2102 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (At least 60 credit points from ANY subject-area at any level) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 090701 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
Students will develop a critical understanding of terms, concepts, theories, research and practical applications in developmental psychology across the life span. They will study developmental research methodology and theoretical issues, physical growth, social, emotional, personality and cognitive development in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | |  | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Identify, describe and evaluate the major areas of content within lifespan developmental psychology, including relevant terms, concepts, theories, and research |
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| K2. | Identify the physical, cognitive and psychosocial development of humans from conception to death |
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| K3. | Understand the research methods and the underlying scientific perspective employed by developmental psychologists, including ethical issues in the study of human development |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Develop research, writing, and academic presentation skills |
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| S2. | Apply principles, use creative thinking and judgement to identify and discuss issues within developmental psychology |
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| S3. | Review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge in the field of developmental psychology |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply the scientific method in the evaluation of problems related to behaviour and mental processes during development |
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| A2. | Construct links between developmental psychology terms, concepts, theories and research to real world scenarios |
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| Unit Content: |
•Human lifespan development perspectives
•Issues, theories and research methodology in lifespan development
•Motor and perceptual development in infancy
•Cognitive and language development in early and middle childhood and adolescence
•Physical, moral, personality and social development in early and middle childhood and adolescence
•Physical, cognitive, moral, family development and social relations in adulthood
•Career development
•Death, dying and bereavement |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3 | Mastery of unit content: theories and research findings | Online Tasks | 10-40% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2 | Written Report: Produce one or more components of a report of developmental psychological research, comprising the introduction, method, results and/or discussion | Research Report | 20-50% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2 | Written Task: Apply principles and theories of developmental psychology to communicate with varied audiences | Written Task | 10-40% |
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