Chapter 13: Cognitive, Personality, and Social Development Flashcards
Dev. as Growth, Maintenance, and Regulation of Loss
- Growth: learning new things
- Maintenance/Resilience: keeping those gained things
- Regulation of loss: adapting to loss of abilities/skills
Sources of Stability
studies find substantial stability in personality characteristics across the life-span. (BIG5 Model: OCEAN)
Sources of Change
Change falls into 3 categories: age-graded, history-graded, and non normative change.
O-CEAN
O - Openess (creative, innovation vs conformity
O-C-EAN
C - Conscientiousness (organized; careful vs careless)
OC-E-AN
E - Extraversion (outgoing; sociable vs retiring)
OCE-A-N
A - Agreeableness (warm; trusting vs suspicious)
OCEA-N
N - Neuroticism (tense; anxious vs calm)
Age-graded change
changes that come more or less inevitable with time: i.e. physical, cognitive, life course changes ((retirement))
History-graded Changes
Events we share with our cohort (WWII; COVID-19)
Non-normative changes
unique; individualistic changes that apply to our own lives
Crystallized Intelligence
Accumulated Knowledge; procedural Knowledge (facts); remains stable and can increase in middle age or older
Fluid Intelligence
Ability to reason speedily and abstractly; helps with problem solving (doing so creatively)
What is Generativity
40-65 age range with a focus on “how can I contribute to the world?”
Two components of Generativity
- Desire - wanting to be giving
- Accomplishment- feeling productive
