textbook module 7

Question 1

Happiness is approximately

Answer 1

u shaped throughout life course, mental distress tends to reach maximum at middle age

Question 2

Disengagement theory

Answer 2

toward the end of their lives, individuals and societies pull away from one another in preparation for death

Question 3

Paradox of aging

Answer 3

improved psychological well being with very real age-related losses and contractions of social world

Question 4

SST focuses on 2 main classes of psychological goals:

Answer 4

1) one compromises preparatory goals such as knowledge acquisition, initiating friendships, or exploring novel experiences

2)concerns feeling states, emotional satisfaction, and a sense of belonging, purpose and worth

Question 5

SST claims that when time horizons are long and nebulous,

Answer 5

people prioritize goals that prepare them for seemingly endless and winding roads ahead

Question 6

SST claims that as time horizons grow shorter, emotional goals are

Answer 6

prioritized over exploration

Question 7

Little evidence that older people are happier than younger people, but

Answer 7

older people are less unhappy than younger people

Question 8

Positivity effect

Answer 8

developmental shift in which a well documented attentional bias that favors negative information, once presumed to be universal, becomes positive with age

Question 9

Top down explanation for positivity affect:

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older people are capable of processing negative information, yet they do not

Question 10

Age is associated with increasing interest in emotionally meaningful activities and social partners

Answer 10

prosocial tendencies increase with age