PSY313H5 : Ch. 1 Study Guide
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Why study adult development and aging: academic, personal: thinking about their own development and aging. One can control or optimize to some extent his/her own development throughout adult years: service: wanting to know how to help others. Development: combined effects of the accumulation of experiences and the consequences of time-related biological processes that affect behavior and physiology throughout the life span of individuals. The term development applies to changes in behavior that vary in a predictable and orderly way with increasing age. Developmental change must be relatively durable and distinct from temporary fluctuations in behavior caused by mood. Development carries potentials and limits; it may include gains as well as losses in behavior. Study of development: 2 aims: ontogeny or int raindividual change: the origins and development of behavior within the individual. Intraindividual is the change that occurs over different age groups.
