PSYCO223 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biopsychosocial Model, Continuity Equation, Muscle Tone
1 Nov 2016
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3 types of changes as you get older: physical/biological (grey hair, psychological/cognitive (mental resources, social (retired, spend time differently) Gerontology: study of aging from young adulthood through older age, as well as people 65+ as a group (multiple perspectives: biological perspective: cellular changes (why do we age at all, sociological: change in roles. Retirement, becoming grandparents: anthropological: how is aging different across cultures, historical: patterns of aging across time, psychological: study of behavior and mind, different perspectives (social, cognitive,) Life span perspective: 2 phases: early phase: childhood and adolescence, later phase: young adulthood, middle, old age. Continuity principle: changes are continuous over the lifespan. Baltes argues life-span development consists of dynamic interaction between. Maintenance: optimize focus with selective optimization and compensations. Life expectancy: avg age for a person in a particular time period. Life span: highest age someone in the species reached(~120) Health expectancy: # of good, healthy years. (compression of morbidity)
