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Psychology Of Adulthood Aging

Concepts of Age and Demographics:

The _____________ perspective views people as if they are machines.
Mechanistic. From the mechanistic perspective, people are viewed as reacting automatically to physical forces, as behaving in predictable ways, and as being a sum of their parts.

The ____________ perspective views people as developing, maturing, and changing over time.
Organismic. From the organismic perspective, people are seen as maturing and changing as they progress through set development patterns.

A pattern of behavior associated with a certain period in development is known as a _______.
Stage. A stage refers to a set of behaviors associated with a certain period of a person's development. For example, in Freud's theory of psychosexual stages the oral stage occurs from birth to 12 or 18 months. This stage is characterized by mouth-oriented behaviors including sucking and eating.

If a psychologist views people as being affected by their past and as affecting......


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