Daniel Huang Chapter 9 1. Mutations can be very negative in that it can cause cancer in somatic cells. However it is important to note that mutations will also lead to variability which is beneficial to us. Mutations in intergenic DNA affects regulations of protein products which is actually less detrimental than mutations in exons which code for the proteins. 2.…
There are four basic assumptions of Lifespan Perspective. These assumptions state that development is: lifelong, multidimensional and multi-directional, highly plastic, and affected by multiple, interacting forces. First, development is lifelong, meaning that there is no certain period in a person’s life that is more influential than another. changes in development happen throughout life and occur in three ways: physical, cognitive, and emotional/social. Development is also multidimensional and multi-directional.…
According to Thompson, “the brain is like a puzzle, and growth is fastest in the exact parts the kids need to learn skills at different times. [...] But what really caught our eye was a massive loss of brain tissue that occurs in the teenage years” (Thompson par. 6-7). In this quote, Thompson refers to the brain like a “puzzle” and how most of the growth occurs during the…
The Ted Talk video about longevity was very interesting. According to the Ted Talk video, Dan Buettner states that there is no short term fix for longevity. He states that 10% of how long we live is determined by genes, while the other 90% is affected by our lifestyle. He also states that 1 out of 5,000 live to be 100 years old. People’s chances are low because we are not programmed for longevity.…
In the past, philosophers and scientists have long been interested in the process of aging. However, interests in this amazing and highly important topic was barely even discussed before the 1960s. In recent decades, the interests in aging has greatly accumulated, and the reason to that is not only the elderly takes up most of the percentage of the population, but because they make use of a sufficiently great proportion of the national spending funds. Furthermore, most people have realized that they can now have a extremely happy, active, and productive life beyond the normal retirement age. Scientifically speaking, aging is an extremely complex process and requires a number of causes.…
The theory states that as one gets older, small traumas to the body start to build up . What might have easily healed at the age of twenty-two will heal slower and less efficiently at the age of sixty-two. As age increases strength decreases and body functions don’t work the same (Gilbert). Point mutations increase in number the older that one gets. Then enzyme efficiency encoded by genes start to decrease.…
“As many as 30,000 synapses may be lost per second over the entire cortex during the pubertal/adolescent period.(1)” When the brain develops there is synaptic growth and pruning happening. During early development there is a lot a synaptic growth and during the later stages of development, synaptic pruning is taking place. This is when logical thinking develops. When the brain goes through these processes it is considered brain change, however it is normal.…
2. How does the diagram of neurons "At birth vs. at age 6" demonstrate this? - Based on the diagram of neurons: At birth vs. at age 6" from the video provided, it demonstrates that children from birth till the age of six have a growth mindset. It depicts how the…
The basic concept of aging is that there is declining efficiency in the body as we grow older.…
Almost Senior and loving it? Life, as we know it, can change in a heartbeat as we get older. Hormones and Testosterone become out of control creating havoc in our lives unparalleled by anything that we have experienced prior to our body turning against us. Suddenly, walking a flight of stairs may have us huffing and puffing, and the foods that we eat create pounds of fat in places we did not think it could exist.…
Generativity vs Stagnation (Middle Adulthood 40-65 years) The seventh stage of Erikson’s Psychosocial Development covers middle adulthood age 40-65 years. In entering this stage individual’s main focus is career, family, church, relationship and community. There are two kind of life styles Generativity vs Stagnation. Generative people love to prevail and play leading, positive and productive role towards their family and community.…
As we age, our bodies begin to break down. It’s comparable to the Second Law of Thermodynamics: the universe always tends to move towards disorder. We come fresh out of the womb in condensed little bodies and grow until we reach our genetic capacity. When we die, our bodies rot in the ground while worms eat away at our insides. Our small little bodies grow into worm food: disorder.…
When one thinks of trauma one may associate it with trauma centers at medical centers or from television shows in which the cause of injury or death was blunt force trauma. NBC once aired a television shows called Trauma. The show Trauma was based on a group of paramedics in San Francisco, California and the traumatic situations they enouuntered as paramedics. While Webster’s dictionary defines it as "an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent:" It is also defined as "a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury" (merriam-webster, 2015).…
Getting old is probably a mind thing. Everybody is going to get old one day. Unfortunately, no one can stop time or the process of aging. There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to aging: health conditions, being lonely and being set in your ways. We live in a time where the older generations are being plunged with having serious or severe health conditions which are on the rise.…
The stages of human life Every human being born, grows, matures, grows old and dies. These stages are a process of continuous physical, psychological and intellectual changes. It is an irreversible and permanent evolution of changes, our body has stages of growth, maturation and degeneration.…