PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blood Pressure, Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis
20 Apr 2016
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Chapter 1 - themes and issues in adult development and aging: biopsychosocial perspective: view of development as a complex interaction of biological, psychological and social processes, biological, physiological factors. Personality: e. g. mid-life crisis (no empirical evidence, more hollywood, sociocultural, social context. Identity: how we define ourselves according to the biopsychosocial model. Changes are continuous over the lifespan: changes that occur later in life are contingent and build upon one"s history of past events, also referred to as the continuity principle . Individuals remain the same even though they change: different on the outside but the same on the inside (change is slow and gradual) 3: have and/or engage in characteristics associated with living and longevity, e. g. , cautiousness. 5 ways to shorten your life: being overweight, drinking and driving, eating inadequate fruits and vegetables, being physically inactive, smoking. Survivors managed to avoid these 5 major threats to a long life. Just averages & typical characteristics of older adults.
