Psych unit 2 "The complexity of Psychological Development''

• Psychological Development Definition: An individuals changes and lifelong growth across social, emotional and cognitive domains
• Social Definition:

  Changes in an individuals relationships with others and their interaction skills
• Cognitive Definition:


  Changes in an individuals mental abilities such as problem solving and memory
• Emotional Definition

  Changes in how an individual experiences diffrent feelings and how these feelings are expressed, interpeted and delt with
• Acronym for factors within Psychological Development

  S:E:C (social, emotional, Cognitive)
• Examples of Social Development 


  Learning how to have conversations with others, Learning how to appropraitely communicte with peers
• Examples of emotional Development

  learning how to appropriatly express emotions such as anger, recognising your own emotions, understanding how others around you feel
• Cognitive Development Example

  Learning a second language, learning your times tables,

  undertsanding others have perspectives
• Nature Vs Nurture

  A long standing debate about wheather Biological or environmental factors contribute more to psychological devolpment and wellbeing
• Nature Definition:


  Hereditary Factors including full collection of our genes (human genome), that can influence our psychological developmet
• Nurture definition


  Environmental factors and contributors within the environment that shape us
• Five groups of environmental factors 


  1. Emotional environment

  2. sociocultural environment

  3. Learning environment

  4. Prenatal Environment

  5. Physical Environment
• If all 5 environmental factors are met the person is.....


  Enriched, All basic needs and more are provided so environment positively impacts growth
• Biopsychosocial Model

  model for considering psychological development and mental wellbeing
• The Biopsychosocial model includes:

  Biological (internal), Psychological (internal) and Social (external)
• Mental Wellbeing Definition


  State of emotional and social wellbeing in which individuals:

  -realise their own abilities

  -can cope with the normal stresses of life

  -can work productively

  -can contribute to their community
• According to the Biopsychosocial model mental wellbeing is influenced by 


  The interaction of biological, psychological and social factors
• Biological, social and psychological factors can 


  Increase or decrease the potential for an individual to have high levels of mental wellbeing
• High levels of mental wellbeing cannot be attained if

  only one factor in the biopsychosocial model, all need addressing
• low levels of mental wellbeing can be improved by adressing 


  a combination of the biopsychosocial factors
• Biological Factor 


  internal genetic and/or physiologically based factors, these factors are innate (born with) Or can come about later on in life
• Examples of Biological Factors

  Genetic predispositions, Medication, Substances
• Social Factors Definiton


  External Factors, individuals interactions with others and external environment and community
• Examples of Social Factors

  Attachment Style, Family environment, Education
• Psychological factors

  Internal factors, Individuals mental processes, cognition and individual experiences within the mind
• Examples of Psychological Factors

  Personality, Coping skills, thoughts
• mental health is not fixed, but instead we may be


  "more or less mentally healthy"
• Mentally healthy examples


  form and maintain good relationships, think logically and clearly, work productively at wo
• mental health problem examples


  Feel sadness or despair, become forgetful, socially withdrawn
• Heredity 


  Passing of genes from parent to offspring
• Phenotype


  way genotype is expressed physically
• Genotype


  non physically represented genes