PSYC23H3 Lecture 1: PSYC23 lec 1-3
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Early life events that last a life time. How environmental shapes the opportunity and experience of world, or to interact with the world. Education: how money translates ones mental or physical health. Physical and mental health outcomes are much worse in children exposed to poverty and social disadvantages. * ses: social economic status (income and education): a brief index of how you measure the rank in a society. Higher salary, the higher one is on the ladder/ scale of ses. The lower on the scale of ses, more health and mental problems there are. The problem: but the ses-health gradient is a fairly modest relationship. There is much variation that is not explained by ses: what other environmental factors are important. Genes: biological dispositions can also contribute to child health. Conceptual models of interest: biological effects child outcomes. Biology acts differently depending on the environment or the environment acts differently depending on.
