[DEP 3053] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (22 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Maximum recorded lifespan for different species- 125 years old. Species differ in their maximum life expectancies. Human life expectancy gets higher as time goes on. Traditional puts more importance on infancy/early childhood, vs lifespan putting more importance on older age. Gains in young years of life: new skills, new experiences, new relationships. Loses in later life: deaths, loss of function, loss of independence. Development can give gains or losses, different directions. Growth in stages- physical movements (sitting up to walking to running to sports) Development is differential: very varied among individuals. Human lives are embedded in multiple contexts. Exosystem- interactions less close to the individual. Contextual influences: interaction between biology and environment, normative age graded- changes due to a specific chronological age (puberty) More influence in old age: normative history graded- changes due to a specific era/generation (children growing up with technology vs an older ge(cid:374)eratio(cid:374) that did(cid:374)"t) Less influence in childhood, because biology is doing most of the development.
