PSYC23H3 Lecture : Lecture 1 01-12-12.docx
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The last 20 years, no matter what city, there are tremendous individual differences. Let"s say we want to know what"s going within toronto and you can find some support for this; you can find that if you"re from the annex, you"re sitting pretty well here. Relational community in this medial area between nations and cities and families, you can have some positive factors that change the picture. We want to know how stress gets under our skin; what are the relationships for instance. Does the gene really determine all aspects of development. Ideas and theories have moved well beyond attachment theory that we"ll be learning about. They all pivot on the fundamental way that stress becomes internalized and serves the internal processes. Example: apes picture; jousted; everyone is disrupted. When you perturb these social relations you can obviously see huge fluctuations in stresses.
