Class Notes at Normandale Community College

MODULE 9: STUDY QUESTION A variety of different physiological and behavioralcultural characteristics appear with Homo erectus around or shortly after 2 million years ago. These have been discussed in several different lect...

MODULE 2 HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON AGING The Centrality of Time and Culture The process of aging and the characteristics of the aged vary dramatically across different cultures and over different time periods...

Sa 345 week 2 Nation Building, 18671945 Main aims of immigration during this period was economic expansion, the desire to increase the population, settle more terrority, and establish a country with a distinct national ide...

Immigration In the modern sense refers to movement of people from one nationstate to another, where they are not citizens o Persons residing in Canada who were born outside of Canada, excluding temporary foreign workers, C...

Aging and Cognitive Processes Cognitive function undergoes agerelated changes, just like the physical body. Declines in cognitive function have been shown to occur gradually and tend to be less severe than other changes to...

Motor and Sensory Systems Declines in motor performance usually include a decrease in the ability to make decisions, along with a slowing of reaction time. Part of the latter is due to a decline in neuron signal strength. ...

Canadian Aboriginals There are approximately 1.3 million Canadians reporting Aboriginal ancestry (identity). Furthermore, while Aboriginal people comprise 4 percent of the total population, only about 5 percent of this pop...

The Changing Face of Canada Liberalization of Canadas immigration policies, the diversification of source countries after 1967, and other major immigration boom in the 1990s all contributed to this change In the 1990s, 73 ...

Canadian Citizenship Is Not a Human Right Immigration remains closely entwined with questions of national identity Chinese Immigration Act repealed in 1923 Racebased approach remainedimmigration from the Orient would conti...

MODULE 3 INDIVIDUAL AGING CONTINUITY AND CHANGE ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE Changes in Physical Structure and Composition There are some inevitable declines in the bodys systems which are influenced by both genetic and external...