PSY313H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Reserve, Adult Development, Synaptogenesis
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Development: combined effects of the accumulation of experiences and the consequences of time-related biological processes that affect behavior and physiology throughout the lifespan of individuals. Changes in behavior that vary in predictable and orderly way. Study of development includes two aims: understand the origin and development of behavior within the individual; study of ontogeny (study of maturation of individual) or intraindividual change (within individual adults, understand age-related interindividual differences (between different adults) Describe and try to explain the factors that contribute to the differences between individuals as they grow older. Developmental psychology: they study of age-related interindividual differences and age-related intrainvidiual change. Describe, explain, predict and improve or optimize age-related behavior change. Time or age itself does not directly cause change. Behaviour is the focus of study because psychology is the study of behavior. Social interactions, thoughts, memories, emotions, attitudes and physical activities are topics of study within the psychology of adult development and aging.
