PSY 100 Lecture 10: Chapter 9 & 10 Lifespan Development docx
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Cross-sectional design: multiple age groups, study at one time point, disadvantages. Longitudinal design: follow same people, study over several years, disadvantages. Early childhood development: born with most of the brain cells you will need. Wiring is immature at birth: motor development through maturation, sense of hearing, smell, and touch are good, vision is poorly developed. Emerging adulthood: identify exploration, instability, self-focus. Wednesday, april 6, y: feeling in-between, age of possibilities, brain development, between ages 18-25, transition into adulthood has become ambiguous, markers of adulthood shifted from role transitions to less concrete attributes. Middle adulthood: declines in vision, thinning/graying hair, wrinkling skin, loss in height, gain in weight, menopause and andropause, midlife crisis = myth. Late adulthood: changes are gradual, blood pressure increases, vision, hearing, and olfaction decline, decline in cognitive and memory skills. Jean piaget: children (cid:0) tiny adults, stage theory, schemas. Lack of operations: problems with conservation (video) Social interactions: zone of proximal development.
