PSY3128- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 80 pages long!)
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Senescence: the final stages of the normal lifespan. A person who has experienced aging : better, aged, older adult, not so good, codger, coot, etc , elderly, senior. We organize the study of adult development and aging using the biopsychosocial model (figure 1. 1) Causes of psycho social and biological factors in each case. The four principles of adult development and aging. Individuals remain the same even though they change. Intrinsic aging processes are different from those associated with illness. Principle 1: changes are continuous over the life span: at what rate are you changing, are these changes related across domains, e. g. biological and personality, do people pas through the same stages (in the same order?) A person"s appearance may change, but he or she may still feel the same . Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas i am merely in disguise margaret atwood. And yet : young-old: 65-74, old-old: 75-84, oldest-old: 85 and older.
