BPH 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Old Age
11 Sep 2019
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Development: systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur between conception to death: physical development, cognitive development, psychosocial development. Defining development: growth, physical changes that occur from conception to maturity, biological aging, deterioration of organisms that lead to death, growth-stability-decline, aging, physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes, positive and negative, in the mature organism. Cultural influences: age means different things in different societies, age grade, socially defined age group in society, assigned different roles, responsibilities, statuses, privileges. Influence peoples decisions about how to lead their lives: 17 year old having a temper tantrum- not in the correct age norm. Social clock: persons sense of when things should be done and when he or she is ahead of or behind the schedule dictated by age norms. Subcultures: smaller groups in a larger culture: ethnicity. Socioeconomic status: poorer family-child may work out of the house at a younger age vs. wealthier child. Poverty: poverty can be damaging to human development.
