Pail Balte's Developmental Perspective

Uncle, Life-span development is more than the development from the simple stages of baby to old age. Life-span perspective is actually an area of study that says human are on an ongoing development from conception to death. There is an interesting psychologist named Pail Baltes that defines the life-span perspective in seven factors. A person’s development stringing from both biological and environmental factors that include “lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss” (Santrock, p6).
Baltes defines life-span development as a lifelong process. Human does not have a major or essential development in one age period. Each age period is critical to the development of a person’s characteristics. Uncle, so that would mean humans do not finish developing as an adult and then everything is down point to there until senile. We might have matured a great deal once we reach early adulthood, but we are still developing since we are still interacting with the environments throughout adulthood. For example, as we age, we learn to adjust to the discrimination that others place on our age.
Baltes says that there are three dimensions to life, “biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions” (Santrock, p6). There are also many other components to each dimension. Throughout our life, these three dimensions change and intertwine with each other. For example, our ability to think abstractly about matters matures as we meet and see other people. When he says that development is multidirectional, he means that our development in these dimensions might be positive or negative. For example, we might become busier as we move higher in a career filed and have less time for our friends. We might also take longer to remember details as we age, but we might already know a lot since