REVIEW FOR QUIZ Flashcards
What occurs in prenatal period + what age?
- conception to birth
- lots of growth the moment egg and sperm come in contact
What occurs in infancy?
- 18-24 months
- lots of dependancy in parents
- psychology activities -> language, sensory, social learning
What occurs in early childhood?
- 3 to 5 years old
- more independency
- develop school behaviour
What occurs in mid/late childhood?
- 6-7 to 10-11 years old
- more independency
- realizing world is a bigger place
- develop self-control
- cognitive development starts
What occurs in adolescence?
- 10-12 to 18-21 years old
- more independency
- time away from family
- more of socioemotional development
- finding identify
What occurs in early adulthood?
20’s-30’s
- more economic/financial independency
- maybe finding a partner
- pursuing career
What is middle adulthood?
40’s-50’s
- finding happiness/satisfaction in career
- expanding personal and social involvement
- giving advice/preparing next generation
What is late adulthood?
60’s+
- health deterioration
- review life
- may depend on others
What is physical development?
Development of senses, motor skills or health and wellness (physical)
What is cognitive?
Development of thinking, learning, language, reasoning, creativity, attention, memory
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What is socioemotional development?
development of emotions, socio relationships and personality
What is development?
a good or bad change occurring in life
What are normative grade-age influences?
- something that is normal to your age stage
What is non-normative grade age influences?
- something that is personal -> not typically seen in whole society
What is history influences?
- due to historical events, it influences someones life
- something like WWII or Covid
What is nature vs. nurture?
- nature = idea that inherit traits have influence on a person
- nurture - idea that environment plays a role on a person
What is stability vs. change?
- stability = that our personality and traits remain the same -> inherited them or from early child experiences
- change = due to everything changing around us, we also start to change as well -> people are malleable
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What is continuity and discontinuity?
- continuity = sees growth as a gradual smooth process (a triangle)
- discontinuity = sees growth as more abrupt stages, where you must over come something in order to go the next
What is universal and context specific?
- universal = everyone goes through the same process (like puberty)
- context specific = experiences that are specific to that person
What is a risk?
factors identified that make people vulnerable to poor mental health and development
What is resilience?
the ability to overcome and deal with challenges in life
What is protective factors?
something that lowers the negative impact faced from a risk (basically getting better at dealing with something)
What is chronological age?
- The # of years that has elapsed since birth
- Year, month and day
- Used to find patterns of data (what average time a 60 year old spends on phone)
What is biological age?
- Age in terms of biological health
- Functional capacity of a person’s organ
What is a social age?
- Based on your connectedness with others and the social roles people adopt
- Better relationships = happy people
- Friends, family roles → if they have a big friend group → in case study
What is psychological age?
- Refers to an individual’s adaptive capacities compared to those of the same chronological age (able to adapt, memory and emotions)
- Level of maturity for their age (have more a bank account and have a home at 18)
- Context specific like not an actually number but rather if they act older or younger than their chronological age
- Ex. elderly who continue to exercise and live healthy active lifestyles compared to those who do not
What is normal aging?
- Characterizes most individuals in which their psychological function often peaks in early middle age, remains relatively stable until the late fifties to sixties, and then shows a modest decline through eighties
- Major decline occurs as individuals near death
What pathological aging?
- characterized individuals who show greater than average declines as they age through adult years
- May have mild cognitive impairment in early old age, develop alzheimer disease later on, or have a chronic disease that impairs their daily functioning
- HOW HAPPY YOU MEANT BE (LESS HAPPY = GREATER CHANCE OF PATHOLOGICAL AGING, ex. More trauma)