Topic assessment 1

• 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