FRHD 2060 Lecture 1: Week 1: Theories and Methods & Neuroscience as a Tool
1 Dec 2016
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To understand the goals of the discipline of gerontology. To discover how ageism relates to stereotypes of aging. To consider the characteristics of the current and future older adult populations of. Woman has stayed in the town and saw an old flame and was too embarrassed to say hello as he moved on and she had not. The study of aging from maturity through old age. Myths of aging lead to the negative stereotypes of older people, which may result in ageism, a form of discrimination against older adults based on their age. Life-span perspective divides human development into two phases: A later phase (young adulthood, middle age, and old age) Identified 4 key features of the life-span perspectives: As people grow in one area they lose in another and at different rates. Physical growth (height) as a child increases, decreases in adulthood: plasticity. One"s capacity is not predetermined or set in concrete.
