Ch. 13
The highest stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs.
What is Self-Actualization?
A form of prejudice in which people are categorized and judged solely on the basis of their chronological age.
What is Ageism?
Religious involvement, political activism, and continued education are examples of this.
What are activities in late adulthood?
The group of people who see death this way...
They are more impulsive and may seem happy one day and morbidly sad the next.
They do not “get over” the death of a parent, nor do they dwell on it.
They may take certain explanations (e.g. Grandma is sleeping, Grandpa went on a trip) literally.
What are children?
A living arrangement for elderly people that combines privacy and independence with medical supervision.
What is assisted living?
Erikson's stage of development, where adults care for the next generation.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
The universal and irreversible physical changes that occur to all living creatures as they grow older.
What is Primary Aging?
Where adults choose to work on things they are better at and forget other things.
What is selective optimization with compensation?
Believe in religion more than other groups.
What are people close to death?
The final stage in Erikson’s model in which older people gain interest in the arts, in children, and in human experience as a whole.
What is Integrity vs. Despair?
The most crucial members of your social convoy.
What are friends?
Anxiety about the possibility that other people have prejudiced beliefs
What is stereotype threat?
The tendency for elderly people to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones.
What is the positivity effect?
An episode in which a person comes close to dying but survives and reports having left his or her body and having moved toward a bright white light while feeling peacefulness and joy.
What is a near-death experience?
The Big Five.
What are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?
The time when parents are alone again After Children leave the home.
What is an Empty nest?
The hypothalamus (memory) and the prefrontal cortex (planning, inhibiting unwanted responses, and coordinating thoughts) shrink faster than some other brain areas.
What is Brain Shrinkage?
The view that elderly people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres—with relatives, friends, and community groups—and become withdrawn only unwillingly, as a result of ageism.
What is Activity theory?
A death that is peaceful, quick, and painless and that occurs after a long life, in the company of family and friends, and in familiar surroundings.
What is a good death?
The study of death and dying, especially of the social and emotional aspects
What is Thanatology?
The tendency for men and women to become more similar as they age.
What is gender convergence?
When the brain stops using a focused region for each function, inhibition fails, attention wanders, and thinking becomes diffuse.
What is brain de-differentiation?
People over age 65, and often over age 85, who are physically infirm, very ill, or cognitively disabled.
What are frail elderly?
The are the stages of...
Denial (“I am not really dying.”)
Anger (“I blame my doctors, or my family, or God for my death.”)
Bargaining (“I will be good from now on if I can live.”)
Depression (“I don’t care about anything; nothing matters anymore.”)
Acceptance (“I accept my death as part of life.”)
What are the stages of of dying?
The developmental theorist that Mr. N agrees with the most.
Who is Vygotsky?