FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

  Introduction to Human Development and Human Psychology – Definition of growth, development,             
      maturation , memory, learning and forgetting, perception, intelligence, individual differences ,    
      motivation, adjustment, personality, emotions, dreams, counselling.
 Brief introduction to perspective and theories of Human Development
•    Piaget: Cognitive development.
•    Pavlov- Learning
•    Erikson: Psychosocial development
•    Freud: Psychosexual

• Historical development of the field of Human development as a field of study.
• Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of Human Development – definition, need,  importance,  biology, Medicine and other related fields.

• Opportunities for employment in the field of  research , education –pre-school , normal schools, special schools and University teaching, counseling and guidance, program planning  in   government, non-government and voluntary agencies, caretaking of crèches, day-boarding, anganwadi, youth centers and old age homes .

• Qualification of Human Development personnel, roles and responsibilities of the same.

 Conception

• Principles of development.
• Stages of Human Development (in brief).
• Aspects of development- Physical , motor, cognitive, social, emotional, language, personality

( brief   Introduction ).

• Determinants of growth and development – Genes and chromosomes
• Chromosomal abnormalities : Disorders of autosomes,  Disorders of sex chrosomes- Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, XYY syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, XXY syndrome.