PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Disengagement Theory, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Developmental Psychology

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 402
• Professor: Paul Brunet

Document Summary

Teach and completely cover everything about one age group and moving on to the next group and so on. Advantage: compare more of what is going on each group: topical. Taking one topic and looking at development within that topic. Cognitive talk about cognition in all groups. Advantage: get to see the insides of the topic in all age groups. Death & coping with being last of your generation. To make sure that when you are looking at development, you are looking at development a whole and cover everything: multidirectionality. Development increases and decreases, platues etc at varying rates and at different times or within same period. Development is not a one-way streak: multidimensionality. Different dimensions of development that interact cannot be ignored. You can"t look at physical development without considering some aspects of social or cognitive development: plasticity. However, amount of plasticity varies because plasticity is at its highest peak at childhood: history and context.