PSY 3128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Apolipoprotein E, Dementia, Telomere
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Models of development: nature and nurture in adulthood. East coast has most seniors but alberta has most children (globe and mail, 2016 census) Outline: nature vs. nurture, psychological models, qualitative changes over stages, steady changes and influences, biological models, plasticity. Nature vs. nurture interactions between the organisms and the context seems like a more adaptable approach. Models of individual environment interactions: niche-picking: idea in child development you may find the environment where you will thrive the most, reciprocity principle: people influence and are influenced by the events in their lives. Grand, over-arching theories of psychology of aging are : rare, often not supported by data, too vague/imprecise, too difficult to falsify, too broad, therefore, we will work piecemeal, domain-by domain. Erikson"s psychosocial theory: epigenetic principle, each stage unfolds from the previous stage in predestined order but, people may experience a psychosocial issue at an age other that the one shown where it crosses the diagonal.
