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Ta’Keena Brown Journal Reflection #2 The week’s journal reflection is going to cover Chapter 2 which is titled “Models of Development: Nature and Nurture in Adulthood.” In this chapter, we dove more into the biopsychosocial approach and the theories and models represented within. The two topics this week that were the most interesting were the sociocultural and biological models of development. The sociocultural model of development focuses on approaches that give more emphasis to how environmental factors have an influence on development. Starting with the ecological perspective that identifies multiple levels of the environment as they affect individuals over time, it also breaks down the perspective into systems known as the microsystem, mesosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. Each system, or level, essentially interacts with one another in their influence on the individual. The life course perspective focuses on the norms, roles, and attitudes about age having an impact on the individual’s life that shapes it. Also discussed within the sociocultural model, age norms in adulthood are tied to a social clock, which brings us to discuss ageism which is a set of stereotyped views about older adults. My favorite part about this topic was learning that women benefit and are immune to the effects of aging throughout any amount of time they’ve experienced situations of stereotyping and discrimination. I love when science proves things about women we’ve assumed for years. For example, still looking younger and healthier when you have no kids or are unmarried. As a black woman, my favorite example of this is Tracee Ellis Ross, just gorgeous woman who is single and has no children and society allows her to be immune from the effects of ageism.
The biological model of development focuses on the questions “What is aging?” and “Why does the body change over the course of life?”. To understand the biological approach to aging, you must understand that genetics play a major role in this model. The two theories that help to answer the two major questions in the biological approach is the programmed aging theory, the telomere theory, and the random error theory. The programed aging theory proposes that aging is genetically determined and is based on the premise of there being different species in multiple life spans. The telomere theory proposes that cells are limited in the number of times they can reproduce due to the fact that each replication involves a loss in the protective ends of chromosomes known as telomeres. The random error theory proposes that aging is an accident resulting from cellular processes that have taken a left turn. Although there have been no proven studies behind biological theory that has been widely accepted into society, we have acknowledged that aging will be, for now, understood as a combination of all processes (discussed within chapter). I find this model to be quite interesting as we try to dive into why people age the way they do from within. Being a biology minor, it’s interesting to see the psychological theories behind the biological approach. For example, the wear and tear theory of aging is so comical because growing up, I thought it was just something that everyone said as they were getting older, like my cousin who is turning 50 in two weeks always jokes about her body “wearing out” and “not working like it used to”. So, to find out that it is used so often that there is a whole theory for it. All in all, this chapter gave us a little more insight into what makes the models and theories what they are and why they work the way they do. I am excited about consistently learning about age as we dive more into this course due to the fact that as I grow older, I would like to embrace it, yet be prepared for things to look out for.
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