Chapter one and two Flashcards
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Life Course Perspective
Integration and/or direct effects of chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and social change shape peoples lives birth to death
Basic Concepts of Life Course Perspective
Event History
Cohort
Transition
Trajectory
Life Event
Turning Point
Event History
The sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in a persons life from birth to death
Cohort
Group of persons who were born during the same period and who experience particular social changes within a given culture in the same sequence at the same age
Transition
Change in roles and statuses that represent a distinct departure from prior roles and statuses
Role
The performance of the expectations or behaviors associated with status
Status
Social positions designed by society and occupied by individuals
Trajectory
Long-term pattern of stability and change, which usually involves multiple transitions
Life Event
Significant occurrence involving a relatively abrupt change that may produce serious and long-term effects
Turning Point
Life event or transition that produces a lasting shift in the life course trajectory
Distinguish the Various Types of “Age”
Biological Age
Psychological Age
Social Age
Spiritual Age
Biological Age
Biological development and physical health measured by the functioning of various organ functioning
Psychological Age
Behavior, capacity to adapt to changing biological and environmental demands
Social Age
Age graded roles and behaviors expected by society
Spiritual Age
Process of growth, without end, where person searches for meaning, purpose and moral relationships
Theorists associated with development of Psychosocial Theory
Erik Erikson, Sigmund Feud, Jean Piaget, Robert Havighurst
Theory
A set of interconnected statements, assumptions, and hypothetical constructs logically sequenced to explain or describe unobserved structures and relate them with observable events
Model
it describes what happens in practice in a general way
Perspective
A way of perceiving the world flows from a value position
Hypothesis
A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation
Six Concepts of Psychosocial Theory
Stages of Development
Developmental Tasks
Psychosocial Crisis
Crisis Resolution
Radius of Significant Relationships
Coping Behavior
(Spencer Die’s Practicing Cats Running Crazy)
Stages of Development
Period of life characterized by specific behaviors that express the underlying structure
Developmental Tasks
Reflect areas of accomplishments in physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development
Psychosocial Crisis
When one must make psychosocial effort to adjust to the demands of ones social environment at each stage of development
