PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Healthy Diet, Middle Age, Old Age
11 Dec 2018
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Factors affecting your estimated life expectancy->lead to development. Which groups of people live the longest and have the least. North america, europe, australia, south america, japan, korea. The blue zone- clusters where people have been living the longest. an area where people have a higher life expectancy. They did case studies in each of these areas to find out what factors contributed to their high life expectancy. Then tried to apply it to other communities. Become friends with like minded people who want to keep healthy habits. P. 2 in text book: systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur between conception and death . Continuities: remain the same or carry features forward. Prepare for exam- answer key questions after each section in the textbook. Traditional view of development : gain-stability-loss level of performance/achievement in domain (physical, cognitive, psychosocial) increases from birth then plateaus in middle age then finally decreases around old age.
