PSY 3128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Terror Management Theory, Blind Experiment, Telomere
15 May 2017
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Chapter 2: models of development: nature and nurture in adulthood. Key concepts in the study of the lifespan. Life span perspective: emphasizes continuity of development from childhood to old age. Contextual influences: life span change is a function of nature and nurture. Developmental science: need to look at multiple factors in development: nature vs nurture interaction between nature and nurture, organism (person) vs. Reciprocity principal: people influence and are influenced by the events in their lives: psychological models. Grand, over-arching theories of psychology of aging are : rare: how the mind goes to adulthood and ages, often not supported by data, too vague/imprecise, too difficult to falsify, too broad, therefore, we will work piecemeal, domain-by-domain. Epigenetic principle: each stage unfolds from the precious stage in predestined order, but, people may experience a psychosocial issue at an age other that the one shown where it crosses the diagonal.
