PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Chronometry, Menopause, Ageism
17 Nov 2016
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Adult development week one: someone who is over the age of 18 who has matured both physically and mentally. How to define development: patterns of stability, patterns of how things begin to worsen, not so much about growth (physically we decline, growth occurs cognitively. Developmental psychology: all about the children. (cid:1005)94(cid:1004)"s: gero(cid:374)tolog(cid:455) esta(cid:271)lished as a resear(cid:272)h field: study of old people. Some argue that functional age is more important that chronological age. Functional age categories are: focused on fitness, young-old, healthy and active, old-old, some health issues, but still remain somewhat active, oldest old, frail and need care (a lot of health issues) Poor: physical health status, vitals/bp/etc, how healthy is heart, how healthy are lungs. Social age: social roles, parental status, work status. It is possible to be high on one but low on another. What word do you use to refer to someone who is 65+ years old: elderly. They do(cid:374)"t like (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g i(cid:374) that (cid:272)ategor(cid:455)
