adults DEV

Question 1

four principles of adult development and aging

Answer 1

1.changes are continuous over the lifespan
2.only survivors grow old
3.individuality matters
4. normal aging differs from diseases

Question 2

niche picking

Answer 2

enviromental factors work together to influence direcction that children lives take

Question 3

multiple jeopardy hypothesis

Answer 3

belonging to more than one discriminated minority group

Question 4

age as leveler view

Answer 4

proposes that as people become older ae overides all the other isms

Question 5

inoculation hypothesis

Answer 5

older minorities and women become immune to the effects of ageism

Question 6

Erik Erikson’s model of de

Answer 6

-eight stages
-each stage involves a crisis that must be overcome

Question 7

piaget model

Answer 7

learning occurs through assimilation and accommodation

Question 8

multiple threshold model

Answer 8

the realisation one is getting older through a threshold breaking and now has to be processed

Question 9

a gene

Answer 9

is a dna molecule that carries instructions

Question 10

genome

Answer 10

complete set of instructions for building an orgasnims’s

Question 11

DNA

Answer 11

a molecule that can replicate itselfthat encodes information needed to produce proteins

Question 12

mutations

Answer 12

alterations were a gene that contains a mutation any protein encoded by that gene will be abnormal

Question 13

programed aging

Answer 13

proposes that aging and death are built into our genome our hardwiring

Question 14

gompertz function plot

Answer 14

a grpah that shows the relationship between age and death rates for a given species