PSY313H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Paul Baltes, Chaos I, Baby Boom
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Chapter 1: studying adult development and aging perspective on adult development and aging ageism: a form of discrimination against older adults based on their age. They are senile and incapable of making decisions. Life span perspectives: divide human development into two phases: an early phase (childhood and adolescence) and later phase (young adulthood and middle age and old age) Early phase rapid age related increase in people"s size and abilities. Later phase change in size are slow, but abilities to continue to develop as people continue adapting to the environment aging is a lifelong process meaning that human development never stops. Paul baltes four key feature of life span perspective: multidirectionality: development involve both growth and decline; as people grow in one area they may lose in another and at different rates. E. g. people vocabulary grows but they reaction time stops: plasticity: one capacity is not concrete many skills can be learned or improved with practice eve late at life.
