Intelligence
Measuring intelligence as a score on a standardized test. Focus is on getting correct answers and information-processing mechanisms.
psychometric approach
The degree to which one believes that one’s performance in a situation depends on something that one personally does.
Personal Control
Characterized by cognitive and behavioral deficits involving some form of permanent brain damage.
Dementia
A global assessment of one’s marriage
Marital satisfaction
A coworker who teaches a new employee the unwritten rules and fosters occupational development.
mentor or developmental coach
A person who is generally anxious, hostile, impulsive, and self-conscious would likely rate high on which personality trait?
Neuroticism
Acknowledges that adults differ in the direction of their intellectual development.
Interindividual variability
Individuals’ perceptions of their own age and aging
Self-perception of aging
Numerous small cerebral vascular accidents
Vascular dementia
People in committed, sexual relationships who live together, becoming an increasingly popular lifestyle
Cohabitation
The realization that what you learn in the classroom does not always transfer directly into the “real world” and does not represent all that you need to know.
Reality Shock
Consists of the aspects of personality that pull everything together, those integrative aspects that give a person an identity or sense of self
Life Narrative:
Use of currently available information to make sense out of incoming information
Assimilation
How we approach solving problems.
Cognitive Style
quick screening measures of mental competence are used to screen for cognitive impairment
Mental status exams
The well-being of family takes precedence over the concerns of individual family members
Familism
Career choice is the result of the application of Bandura’s social cognitive theory, especially self-efficacy.
Social cognitive career theory
Developmental changes in terms of their adaptive value and functionality.
Personality Adjustment
Ways in which people conceptualize and solve problems emphasizing developmental changes in modes and styles of thinking
cognitive-structural approach
Older adults avoid negative information and focus more on positive information when making decisions and judgments, and when remembering events.
Positivity effect
Disturbance of consciousness that develops rapidly
Due to medical conditions, medication side effects, substance intoxication or withdrawal, sleep deprivation, exposure to toxins, or a combination
Most cases can be cured.
Delirium
Marriage based on similarity
Homogamy
The level to which women may rise in a company, but not go beyond
This is a barrier to promotion women and members of minoritized groups often experience.
Glass ceiling
People create a life story based on where the person has been, where the person is going, and who he or she will become.
It is created and revised throughout adulthood as people change and the changing environment places different demands on them (early, middle, late).
Generativity marks the attempt to create an appealing story “ending” that will generate new beginnings for future generations.
McAdams’ Life-Story Model
Involves changing one’s thought to make it a better approximation of the world of experience.
Accommodation
Refers to people’s ability to recognize their own and others’ emotions.
Emotional intelligence
Persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from, as if one were an outside observer of, one’s mental processes or body (e.g., feeling as though one were in a dream; feeling a sense of unreality of self or body or of time moving slowly).
Depersonalization
Each partner contributes something to the relationship that the other would be hard-pressed to provide
Exchange theory
A depletion of a person’s energy and motivation, the loss of occupational idealism, and the feeling that one is being exploited
Burnout
Ideal end states such as increased self-transcendence, wisdom, and integrity
Personality Growth