PSYC 2070 Study Guide - Final Guide: Substance Abuse, Intellectual Disability, Psychosexual Development
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Development: the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span: involves growth and decline. Life span vs. life expectancy: life span: based on the oldest documented age (oldest possible amount of time a species can live; doesn"t change over time) Currently 122 years: life expectancy: average number of years that a person can expect to live depending on when you were born. Life span perspective views development as: lifelong: Early adulthood is not the endpoint of development. No age period dominates (we will break it into about 7 groups: multidimensional. Consists of biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional dimensions. Multiple components within each dimension: multidirectional: Some dimensions (or components of a dimension) expand, and others shrink: plastic. Development is of interest to psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and neuroscientists, and medical researchers: contextual: All development occurs within a context (setting) Each setting is influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors.
