DEP 3053- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

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Chapter 1: lifelong development, multi-dimensionality, multi-directionality, plasticity, historical embeddedness, multi-disciplinarily, contextualism. As age increases there are more loses than gains. *keep gains and losses in mind while watching up series* Everything that happens to us in an interaction between biology and environment. *reflect on environment and biology driven aspects within the up series* Teenage pregnancy, parental death with child at a young age. Requires insight and information from broad array of disciplines and cross-cutting topics because each person develops simultaneously in body, mind, and spirit. Every individual can be changed at any point in time, in can be easier or harder whether early in life or late in life. Influenced by culture, upbringing, genes, and other biological influences. Four ages of development: first age- childhood and adolescence, second age- prime adulthood (20s-50s, third age- between 60-79, fourth age- 80 or older.