Test 1 Flashcards
Nature vs. Nurture
Nature: refers to the influence of the gene that people inherit
Nurture: refers to the environmental factors (from the mom’s nutrition while pregnant to the experiences in life)
Differential susceptibility
The idea that people vary in how sensitive they are to certain things (sometimes can be genetics)
Ex: Children with a more difficult temperament —> had negative parenting
Multidirectional
The development of something or someone doesn’t occur in a strictly linear fashion
(Some things can increase or decrease in a life spend)
Ex: aging
Multicontextual
Context of the person’s life: physical environment (temperature, air quality, plants), surrounding living creatures (animals, people, birds, insects), social values (love, money, cooperation), cultural norms (how you behave, belief, proper manners)
Bronfenbrenner’s model (multicontextual)
Microsystem: immediate surroundings (family, school, peers, neighborhood)
Mesosystem: interaction of system (family interact w/school to help you, medical institution)
Exosystem: where the child is not involved but it affects him anyways (the neighbourhood, parent’s work, parent’s friends, mass media)
Macrosystem: cultural values, political processes, economic policies, social conditions
Chronosystem: time system (changing conditions, personal and societal, over time)
Cohort (multicontextual)
People born within the same generation will move through life together, experiencing the same events (concerts), technologies (Instagram, Snapchat), and cultural shifts at the same age
Multicultural
Shared beliefs, norms, behaviours, expectations
Social construction (multicultural)
How people think and act, what they cherish, ignore, and punish
Ex: race, gender, age, intelligence, nationality, childhood
Difference-equals-deficit error (multicultural)
The mistake belief that cultural differences are superior or inferior somehow
Ethnicity vs. Race (multicultural)
Ethnicity: people who share the same language, culture and religion and are often born in the same region
Race: based on physical appearance, social construction
Intersectionality (multicultural)
Systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity… interact to create a unique dynamic
Multidisciplinary
Many academic discipline are relevant:
-Biosocial: medicine, neuroscience, biology
-Cognitive thinking: psychology, education, linguistics
-Psychosocial: economics, sociology, history
Plasticity
- People can change over time
- New behaviour is affected by what already happended
*brain, body, and behaviour is more modlable than we think
Dynamic systems approach (plasticity)
Includes every aspects of nature of development:
physical context, emotional influences, multicultural, multidirectional, multicontextual, multidisciplinary
Example of a plasticity in recent years involve the brain
Neuroplasticity
Emerging adulthood
In the “emerging adulthood”: good health, 18-25 years old, clear skin, care a lot about their looks
Strong and active bodies
Every system (respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, muscular, reproductive…) function at their best in emerging adulthood. It is the best time to do sports. *peak of strength
Growth and strength (emerging adulthood)
Muscle growth, bone strength, shape changes: fat accumulation in women (thigh, breast), shoulder width and upper-arm strength.
Organ reserve
The power that each organs themselves can employ when needed: speedy recovery, cope with stress more quickly.
Homeostasis
Balance the inner body to keep the physical balanced. *aging slows homeostasis, the body heat is less efficient when cold —> high temp. May temporarily overwhelm the heart, kidneys…
Allostasis
Long term adjustment, affect physiology
Set point
Body weight that a person tries to maintain
Body mass Index
Weight/height
Anorexia
Think that they are overweight when they are far too skinny