PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Terror Management Theory, Disengagement Theory, Epigenetic Clock
27 Oct 2016
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Models of development: nature and nurture in adulthood. Niche picking doing things youre good at. The idea that physical and mental growth is through genetic predisposition. Sociocultural models of development: ecological perspective bronfenbrenner. Micosystem peers, family, work, church , school. Mesosystem- interactions between elements of the microsystem, like home and work. Macrosystem: laws, social norms of a culture, government and public policy. Fear of death and dying? (terror management theory) Modernization hypothesis: multiple jeopardy hypothesis, age as leveler view. Psychological models of development in adulthood: erikson"s psy(cid:272)hoso(cid:272)ial theory. Kotre: generativity is epressed throughout the whole life-span: biological and parental, technical how to fix a car, cultural, agentic something that transcends death, communal, piaget"s cognitive- developmental theory. Piaget identified 3 intellectual tendencies that direct the way the human mind handles information: organization of information into schemas, adapting a new information through assimilation and accommodation, equilibration- cognitive harmony.
