01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Adult Development, Evolutionary Psychology, Role Theory
28 May 2016
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Lecture 16 stress, wisdom, social roles, social relationships. Stress interacts with age to produce lower immune system functioning which leads to higher risk of disease and death. Racial and gender discrimination can be highly stressful. Positive changes that follow experience of stressful life events. Related to how one appraises and copes with problems. The maintenance of healthy functioning following exposure to potential trauma. Resilience is most common response to traumatic stress. Of four outcomes people can have after exposure to trauma, the most prevalent is resilience. Expert level of knowledge at how to conduct life. Social roles: expected behaviors and attitudes that come with one"s position in society. Social role transitions: roles change over the lifespan: with few exceptions, roles are neither gained nor lost, they change as the life circumstances of the individual change. Gender roles: describe what men and women actually do in a given culture during a given historical era.
