PSYC 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Asteroid Family, Consumer Choice, Early Childhood Education

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3600
• Professor: Diane Lawless

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Risk factors: factors that increase the likelihood of a problematic outcomes. Protective factors: strengths or resources associated with positive outcomes. Proximal processes: factors which affect the individual more directly and immediately. Distal processes: factors that are broader in scope and indirectly affect individuals. Cumulative-risk hypothesis: most people can adapt to one or two risk factors, but there is a significant increase problematic outcomes as risks factors increase. Current causal definition multiple, reciprocal resources and situations over the life course. Based on the perspective of exclusion from access to goods and services, economic participation, and social interaction can all put individuals and families at risk. At risk factors viewed in terms of the possession of human, social and physical capital. Human capital - marketable skill sets talking about human capital will help this examples of this is skills set like employability. Other kinds of social support like emotional support may help to combat homelessness.