Lecture Week 1 Flashcards
1
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Chronological Age
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- looking at development in order
- Observing from birth through to death
- Understanding change across a lifespan
2
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Social Clock
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- Societal norms that centre around age related expectation
- Certain things should happen at certain times of life eg: marriage & children
- Cultural in nature ie: adolescence is viewed differently according to culture
3
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Punishments for violation of Social Norms
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- Often unconscious in nature in Western Culture
- related to expectations and the way we are viewed
- not explicit
4
Q
3 Key age related changes
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- Universal - Biologically based we all go through them
- Group Specific - Culturally based so may not be found in all cultures, Cohort Effects shared by individuals
- Individual Differences - influenced by unshared genetic and environmental factors
5
Q
Cohort Effects
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- Events and experiences shared by a group of people associated by age and time of place
6
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Main Human Developmental Theories
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- Psychoanalytical
- Behavioural
- Cognitive
There are others but these are the ones we will be studying
