Developmental Psychology Unit 4 Flashcards
Generativity vs. stagnation
Adults seek to be productive in a caring way otherwise feel stagnation; 7th stage 40-65
Integrity vs. despair
Older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community; 8th stage 65+
Consequential strangers vs. friends
Consequential strangers are close contacts, friends provide care, advice, help
Generativity
Making valuable contributions to the world and future generations
Employment related to adult psychosocial health
Is beneficial, provides generativity through work
Factors on long term marriage quality
Passion, intimacy, and commitment; strong sense of shared experiences
Ageism
Stereotype against someone for their age
Young-old
65-75
Old-old
75+
Oldest-old
85+
Hayflick limit
Limit on cell replication imposed by the shortening of telomeres with each division
Wear-and-tear
Body wears out because of time and exposure to environmental stressors
Weathering
Gradual accumulation of wear and tear on the body with age
Maximum life span
Oldest age that members of a species can obtain
Overall brain slowdown is evident in what?
Slower reaction time, can’t multitask
What is the fastest growing age group in the U.S.?
85+
Selective optimization with compensation
People maintain a balance in their lives as they grow older by optimizing their development, selecting the best way to compensate for physical and cognitive losses
Decrease in brain functioning and memory may be attributed to what?
Neurocognitive disorders
Working memory
Holds info while using it
Dementia
Irreversible, pathological loss of brain functioning
Loss of working memory affects what abilities?
Problem solving, decision making, evaluation
Primary aging
Inevitable changes associated with aging; hearing loss, changes in skin, hair, weight, height
Secondary aging
Changes caused by illness or disease
For Erikson each new experience throughout life requires what?
Reassessment of identity
Where do elderly people prefer to live?
In own homes
Psychological health in old age is based on what factors?
Feeling that there is continuity in experience and traditions among generations
Age, gender, ethnicity, and income are categories of what?
Stratification
The opposite of disengagement theory is what?
Activity theory
Continuity theory
People continue to be themselves even with aging
Positivity effect
Tendency for older people to remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones
Stratification theories
Emphasize social forces, particularly those related to a person’s social category
Disengagement theory
View that aging makes a person’s social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in role relinquishment, withdrawal, and passivity
Activity theory
Older people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres and become withdrawn unwillingly, result of ageism
Involved grandparents
Active in the daily lives of their grandchildren
Remote grandparents
Emotionally distant but are honored, respected, and obeyed by grandchildren
Companionate grandparents
Independent of the daily demands of child rearing
Activities of daily life (ADL)
Eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, and transferring from bed to chair
Buffer against losses in retirement and widowhood
At least one close friend
Assisted living
Housing for elderly that provides nursing care, housekeeping, and prepared meals
Thanatology
Study of death
Passive euthanasia
Allowing a seriously ill person to die naturally
Living will
Written statement that details a person’s desires regarding their medical treatment for when they pass and no longer capable of giving consent
Children’s understanding of death
Aware by 4, biological understanding 6-10
100 years ago, average life worldwide was what?
32 years
Good death
End of a long life, peaceful, quick, at home, with family and friends, and without pain
Stages of grief
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
100 years ago where did most people die?
At home
For Maslow which stage in dying process?
Safety
Type of grief that impedes future life
Complicated grief
Double effect
When an action has both a positive and a negative effect
Double effect in opiates
Relieve pain but slow down respiration
Physician-assisted suicide
Doctor helps patient to end life, typically by lethal drug
Active euthanasia
Deliberate action to cause death
Mourning
Public expression of bereavement through ceremonies and behaviors
Functions of mourning process
Recognize, react, recollect, relinquish, readjust, and reinvest
