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.