PSYC 210- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chapter 1: development- pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span, development is: Multidirectional (every stage has gains and losses) Early childhood (2 years to 5-6 years) Middle and late childhood (6 years to 11 years) Middle adulthood (40 years to 60 years) Normal aging: most people, psychological functions peak in early middle age, stable until late 50s. Pathological aging: greater than average decline, early old age may have mild cognitive impairment. Successful aging: positive physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development maintained longer, declining later in old age, nature-nurture issue: Nurture deals with environmental experiences: stability-change- early traits and characteristics either persist through life or change, continuity-discontinuity issue- involves either gradual, cumulative change or distinct stages of change. Determine a process or problem to study. Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital: erikson"s psychosocial theory: 8 stages of psychosocial development.
