FRHD 2060 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Female Reproductive System, Circulatory System, Psychoneuroimmunology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Scott Maitland

Document Summary

To discover how ageism relates to stereotypes of aging. To consider the characteristics of the current and future older adult populations of canada. Gerontology the study of aging from maturity through old age. Life-span perspective divides human development into two phases: 1. An early phase (childhood and adolescence: 2. A later phase (young adulthood, middle age, and old age). Paul baltes (1987) identified four key features of the life-span perspective: multidirectionality, plasticity, historical context, multiple causation. As people grow in one area they lose in another and at different rates: loosing interests. O(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) is (cid:374)ot p(cid:396)edete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)ed o(cid:396) set i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)ete. Many skills can be learned or improved, with practice, even in late life. There are limits to the degree of potential improvements. Each of us develops within a particular set of circumstances determined by the historical time in which we are born and the culture in which we grow up.