HDEV 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jon D. Levenson, Puberty, Ejaculation
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Women create developmental niche that will be most favorable for the development of her children. Men compete with other men for available women and focus on physical strength and aggressiveness. Changes can be abrupt or gradual and can have positive or negative outcomes. Three types on influences: normative (congruent or incongruent, ex: having children at 25 congruent and having children at 15 is incongruent), graded (cohorts, age graded), non-normative (ex: specific to you, i. e becoming an elephant trainer) Erikson is interested in how early life effects last stage. What you think of yourself and how it changes: bandura. Important for old people to maintain sense of agency. Thomas: early temperament in manifested in adulthood. Valient: adult of aging in terms of cohorts terms to increasing heath factors: harvard cohort: freshmen men. Reif: core dimensions found differences in well-being. When events happen at normal time they have no crisis effects but act as a turning.