PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: X Window System, Reference Group, Menopause

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 220
• Professor: Levinson

Document Summary

Baltes, reese, and lipsitt (1980): 3 influences on development: normative age-graded influences: (framing idea for thinking about the influences on development) Correlated with chronological age (characteristics that appear at certain ages) Biology: puberty, menopause see them around the same age range across people across countries consistently, due to biological causes. Environment: graduation, retirement more of societal influences than anything. Biology x environment: driving (when physically and cognitively able to pass test and when legally old enough) : history-graded influences: Normative in the sense that they are experienced by majority of population at a given time not age graded. 9/11 occurred, did not have to be 3 years old to experience it, everyone did at once. Majority of cohort affected in same way : but affects different cohorts differently (1950 cohort experienced. Biological: aids epidemic (had major implications that causes huge losses of population; 90s, affected the cohorts during that time)