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Psych 250 Week 1

Chpt 1

TermDefinition
Plasticity the capacity to change in response to experience, positive or negative.
Neuroplasticity the brain’s remarkable ability to change in response to experience throughout the life span
Development the outcome of ongoing interactions between a changing person and her changing world.
Baltes’s modern life-span perspective assumes that development occurs through the life span, imultidirectional, involves gains & interlinked losses at all age, characterized by plasticity, affected by its historical & cultural context, influenced by multiple, interacting causes, & best studi
Age grade assigned different statuses, roles, privileges, and responsibilities
Age norm are society’s way of telling people how to act their age
When is emerging adulthood? 18-25yrs
Why did emerging adulthood come into existence? WW2 occurs= more complex jobs= more education needed= more adolescence going to college and post-poned marriage/kids
2 positive messages about old age in the 7 themes of the life span perspective? 1. Plasticity- older adults retain intellectual abilities & enhance them by physical exercise, good nutrition, a mentally & socially active lifestyle, or training to improve specific cognitive skills 2.Development & mature function= NOT age specific
Psychoanalytic Theory focus on the development & inner dynamics of personality (conflicts between the id, ego, & superego), maturational stages of psychosexual develop (oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital), concept of unconscious motivation, & its defense mechanisms to
Evolutionary Theory looks to the evolution of the human species for explanations of why humans are as they are and develop as they do
B.F. Skinner Operant conditioning
Albert Bandura
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