PSYCH207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ageism, Research, Critical Period
19 Sep 2013
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Developmentalists have come to understand that inborn characteristics interact with environmental factors in complex ways. Baltes emphasized that as humans age, they adopt strategies that help them maximize gains and compensate for losses. Scientists who study age related changes across the lifespan often use three broad categories, called domains of development, to classify these changes. (physical domain, cognitive domain, social domain) these 3 domains do not function independently of one another. Studies of canadian children have shown that a combination of a highly vulnerable child and a poor or unsupportive environment produces by far the most negative outcome. Universal changes- common to every individual in a species and are linked to specific ages group specific changes- shared by all individuals who grow up together in a particular group. Culture shapes not only the development of individuals, but also our ideas about what normal development is. individual differences- changes resulting from unique, unshared events.
