HOD-1250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Internal Validity, Blind Experiment, Ageism

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Human and Organizational Development
• Course: HOD-1250
• Professor: Griffith Brian

Document Summary

Psychology: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Developmental psychology: the subfield that examines the nature and direction of change in the individual over time. Aging: the process of decline and loss associated with adulthood. Development: systematic changes in behavior over time that result from interaction between the individual and the internal and external environment. Adult development: the branch of developmental psychology concerned with change in the individual after adolescence. Adulthood: period characterized by relative independence, financial and otherwise, from parents and the acceptance of responsibility for one"s actions. Piaget and freud thought development stopped at adolescence. At first most focused on child and adolescents. Maturity seen as plateau or static period followed by aging, decline and death. Demographic trends: changes in the characteristics of the population: swelling number of older adults, baby boomers. Average life expectancy - number of years an individual born in a particular year can expect to live given the conditions presented at the time.