PSYCO223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Silent Generation, Social Change, Heredity

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO223
• Professor: Dayuma Vargas Lascano

Document Summary

Lifespan development focuses on the cognitive, physical and social developments that occur from. Strong focus on the patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior that occur across development. Developmental researchers investigate how biological and environmental factors jointly influence human development. Epigenetic: environment can either up regulate or down regulate (alter) the expression of gene. Growth happen at the early life and then stability established. Multidirectional: some skill increase some skill decrease. Plastic: the brain is malleable, the adult brain can create neurons in hippocampus (takes information and store it in longterm memory), and old factory bulb (smell processing). Have to go through the relay area of the thalamus and contact with the amygdala. Co-construction of biology, culture, and the individual: culture affects on how you perceive information. Note: variety different context that s changed over time, must be dynamic and change over time.