Chapter 3 Flashcards
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What growth and development is? (reversals)
Usually thought of the movement forward growing, anabolism. The reversal is true as well, catabolism, changing unuseful behavior, death
Lifetime, Chronological age
is used most often as a standard for maturation and development but also is a rough estimator of a person’s physical and psychological status
Historical time
series of events that directly shape the life of a person and longterm processes
Cohort
group of people that are about the same age, born around the same time. members of the same generation.
Social time – expected times and norms
social expectations for a specific era. every society there is a time where specific norms must be followed. (18 yeaar old going to colllege)
Social time – tasks
If a person performs a task too early or latetr than the norm he is seen as a devient. and this can effect development
Age-irrelevent society
Because many norms are being broken. If is becoming difficult to assign age norms to people. There are 14 year mother, 80 year old grad student.
Ideal norms
standards or expectation
“The entire life cycle is speeded up for people who are poor”
They finish education sooner, get first job sooner, marry younger, kids earlier, grandparents earlier because they dont have the means to explore all there options they have to support themselves now.
Study of development
Nojust abunch of facts that apply to most people of specific ages. Its about finding patterns that can be applied to majority of people.
Principles that are relevant to the understanding of the developing person
- ) All persons are similar and have the same basic needs.
- ) The person is a unified, but open system
- ) Stability and change are constant in any system
- ) The person’s life process evolves irreversibly
- ) The person responds as a total organism
- ) Relative influences of biology and culture shift over the lifespan
- ) Each person is a social being
- ) The person cannot understand the self without understanding others, and he or she cannot understand others without understanding the self.
- ) Culture and society determine guidelines for normal progression of development and behavior patterns.
- ) Nature and nurture are both basic to development.
nature
Development is infuenced by genetics.
nuture
Development is also influence by the personal experiences.
Growth
Change in structure, function, increase complexity of the bodies content, and metabolic and biochemical processes.
Incremental growth
maintaining a daily excess of growth over catabolism can be identified chemically
replacement growth
normal refills of essential body components (recycling of red blood cell)
hyperplasia
increase # of cells
hypertrophy
increase size of a cell
Fact about growth of cells
Each body organ has its own optimum period for growth and the tissues are most sensitive during hyperplastic growth
Development
lifelong changes in structure, feeling, behaviors that come from the maturing of one’s body, mind, experiences, and learning that lead to a new level of maturity and intergration.
What does development allow a person to do
It permit people to adapt to 1s environment by controlling teh environment or controlling there response to it.
biological age
level of physical growth and development compared to physical health and organ capacity
Psychological Age
adaptive capacity of a person compared to other of the same age
Chronologic Age
time since birth