17.237 Developmental Psychology from Adolescence to Old Age

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17.237Developmental Psychology from Adolescence
to Old Age

• Richard Kruk

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Developmental Psychology

• Development
• Change
• Differences
• Assumptions
• Age is important
• Other factors are important

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• Normative age-graded influences
• Examples?
• Normative history-graded influences
• Examples?
• Non-normative influences
• Examples?

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Influences on Development

• Normative
• Age-graded
• School
• Friendship
• Family
• History-Graded
• War, terrorism
• Economy depression
• Health AIDS, Polio, SARS
• Technology

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Influences on Development

• Non-normative
• Specific to individual
• Early death of parent
• Accident
• Illness

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Ideas and Issues in Adult Development

• Why study adult development?
• aging population
• trends
• Population pyramids

of Pop.
of Pop.
Old
Old
Young
Young
2050
2000
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Human life expectancy at birth(average life
span years)

• Prehistoric 18
• Ancient Greece 20
• Ancient Rome 22
• Middle Ages 33
• 19th Century 41
• 1900 (North America)47
• 1915 55
• 1954 69
• 1967 70
• 1971 71
• 1983 75
• 1991 (Canada) 81 (Females)
• 1991 (Canada) 74 (Males)

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Why the increase in life expectancy?
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Additional reasons to study adult development

• social stresses
• health care, CPP
• personal interest
• develop potential
• avoid negative experiences, lifestyles

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• Altruism
• Care, understanding of aging population
• Counter negative attitudes (ageism)
• Factual
• Understand processes of aging

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Course Review

• Text Lemme (2002). Development in Adulthood 3rd
  edition.
• Grading
• 2 term tests, 25 each
• 1 final exam (April 12-28) 35
• 25 M.C., non-cumulative
• 10 essay (integrative)
• In class activities
• 4 video 2 group

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Course Review

• Domains Physical, cognitive, personality, social
• Physical
• Concepts of aging
• Structural and functional change over time
• Reserve capacity over-engineered

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• Cognitive
• Declines in some domains
• Memory, timing
• Gains in others
• Wisdom, expertise, post-formal thinking

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• Personality
• Intimacy, generativity, integration
• Social
• Tasks of development?

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Life-Span development

• lifelong process
• both increases and decreases, and gains and
  losses, in behaviour
• Is modifiable or reversible plasticity
• Multidimensional, multidirectional
• Multiple cultural, social, historical contexts

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Video Activity 1
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• My heart leaps up when I behold
• A rainbow in the sky
• So was it when my life
  began
• So is it now I am a man
• So be it when I shall grow
  old,
• Or let me die!
• The Child is father of the
  Man
• I could wish my days to be
  Bound each to each by
  natural piety.
• William
  Wordsworth, 1802.

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Video 42 Up

• Show me the boy at age 7, and I will show you
  the man.
• Agree or disagree? Why?
• Influences on development? Types?
• Hand in Activity Sheet next week (meeting
  following the video).
• Make sure you write your name

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Milestones and Tasks of Adulthood

• Adolescence and Young Adulthood
• Middle Adulthood
• Late Adulthood

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