ARCH 131 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Identity Formation, Ageism, Telomere
19 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The idea of age is different in different societies and affects our sense of self. Biopsychosocial perspective: view of development as a complex interaction of bio, psycho and social process. Your body changes over time, this in terms has effects on your mentality, how society treats you and how you interact with others. A lot of factors contribute to how a person ages and the psychological processes they go through. Identity is defined as a composite of how people view themselves in the bio, psycho and social domains of life. The interaction of these domains forms an overall view of the self. Four principles of adult development and aging: changes are continuous over the life span. Continuity principle- the changes that people experience in later adulthood build on the experiences they had in their earlier years. There are nonrandom factors and random factors(war, disaster)
