Lecture Week 1

Question 1

Chronological Age

Answer 1

• looking at development in order
• Observing from birth through to death
• Understanding change across a lifespan

Question 2

Social Clock

Answer 2

• Societal norms that centre around age related expectation
• Certain things should happen at certain times of life eg: marriage & children
• Cultural in nature ie: adolescence is viewed differently according to culture

Question 3

Punishments for violation of Social Norms

Answer 3

• Often unconscious in nature in Western Culture
• related to expectations and the way we are viewed
• not explicit

Question 4

3 Key age related changes

Answer 4

1. Universal - Biologically based we all go through them
2. Group Specific - Culturally based so may not be found in all cultures, Cohort Effects shared by individuals
3. Individual Differences - influenced by unshared genetic and environmental factors

Question 5

Cohort Effects

Answer 5

• Events and experiences shared by a group of people associated by age and time of place

Question 6

Main Human Developmental Theories

Answer 6

• Psychoanalytical
• Behavioural
• Cognitive

There are others but these are the ones we will be studying