Topic assessment 1

Cards (14)

  • Psychological development is the process of a person's mental and emotional growth and change throughout life.
  • biopsychosocial model is a holistic approach to understanding the human experience in terms of the influence of biological, psychological, and social factors
  • Biological factors: internal genetic and/or physiologically based factors
  • Psychological factors: internal factors pertaining to an individual’s mental processes, including their cognition, affect, thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes
  • Social factors: external factors relating to an individual’s interactions with others and their external environment, including their relationships and community involvement
  • Examples of biological factors are:
    -genetic predispositions
    -medications
    -nutrition
    -sleep
    -diseases and immune system functioning
    -hormones
  • Examples of psychological factors are:
    -attitudes/beliefs
    -emotions
    -personality
    -coping skills
    -sense of self
    -self-esteem
    -thoughts
    -memories and learning
  • Examples of social factors include:
    -interpersonal relationships
    -attachment style
    -cultural norms
    -socioeconomic status
    -education
    -physical and family environment
    -level of social support
  • Mental wellbeing: an individual’s current psychological state, involving their ability to think, process information, and regulate emotions
  • Psychological development: an individual’s changes in functioning across multiple domains, including the lifelong growth across emotional, cognitive, and social domains
  • Emotional development: the continuous, lifelong development of skills that allow individuals to control, express, and recognise emotions in an appropriate way
  • Typical behaviour: an activity that is consistent with how an individual usually behaves
  • Atypical behaviour: an activity that is unusual or unnatural according to how an individual usually behaves
  • The criteria for categorising typical and atypical behaviour are
    -cultural perspectives
    -social norms
    -statistical rarity
    -personal distress
    -maladaptive behaviour