[PSYCH 3AG3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (13 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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Key ideas in the lifespan approach (baltes, 1987) Historical embeddedness: sociocultural conditions in which are occurring throughout our life- outcomes in aging may be because of the time in which you were raised with different conditions. Historical: work life, in late decades there has been a lot of hands on work like building things, but in recent years we are more mental building, sitting behind a computer jobs. Not to say that people who only used their hands did not have mental intelligence but rather they just ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)"t had to practice it. Historical: in the past health and healthcare was not what it is now, we are better at treating things that allow complex mental functions to be maintained which allows intelligence to be maintained throughout later life. Context: normative age graded influence, predictable during a a certain age, fluid intelligence decline generally happens at a certain age range.
