PSYC 429 - Maturity and Aging

Credits: (3)

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture.
Prerequisites: PSYC 121.
Examines aging processes and resultant changes in psychomotor skills, learning, thinking and intelligence, employment and productivity, personality, and life review. The course adopts a biopsychosocial approach to the study of aging and later life, whereby students will describe the interactions between person (e.g., biological/physical/individual differences – cognition, personality, self) and environment (e.g., cultural, social institutions/context, cohort/generation). Students will be required to analyze their own stereotyped beliefs and perceptions about the aging process and the ultimate impact on society and their own aging experience.

Note(s): Cultural or Behavioral Analysis designated course.