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NUEL 250 FINAL EXAMacceptance (death) - ✅✅-becoming fully aware of impending death; made
peace with themselves
achieving - ✅✅ -intelligence is used to make decisions about long term goals
about career/family/social contributions; young adults
acquisitive -✅✅ -taking in and acquiring information for future use; childhood
through adolescence
✅✅
activity theory - --successful aging means that people remain interested
and active; resist decreases in social interaction
-You must continue to do what you did earlier in life; even if it is a job, successful
aging involves finding a replacement
acute battering incident - ✅✅-physical abuse actually occurs (beating, pushing,
choking, rape, etc.)
adaptation (widowhood) - ✅✅-starts a new life and acceptance of the loss of
their spouse
adult day care - ✅✅ --A program for impaired adults that attempts to meet their
health, social, and functional needs in a setting away from their homes.
-allows for flexibility by allowing independence on nights and weekends
agentic professions - ✅✅ --viewed as best for men
-getting things accomplished like carpentry
agesim - ✅✅ --prejudice/discrimination directed towards older people
-creates negative views of the elderly and is the reason people misinterpret
identical behavior of an old person and a young person
alzheimer's disease - ✅✅ -a progressive and irreversible brain disorder
characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and,
finally, physical functioning
,ambivalent - ✅✅ -reluctant to get close; worry about being loved or if people will
stay → overly invested in relationships, repeated breakups, low self-esteem
anger (death) - ✅✅ -mad at others, god, and often times ask why they are dying
instead of someone else
antioxidant drugs - ✅✅-reduce free radicals which is a concern of the
Wear-and-Tear theory
✅✅-express themselves through art → artist
artistic -
attachment styles and romantic relationships - ✅✅--Shaver
-the adult relationships that we form are consistent with the attachment style we
formed in childhood
autobiographical memories - ✅✅ -memories about own life; what younger
individuals face: pleasant memories are more likely to be recalled, people
remember memories that fit their current identity
avoidant attachment - ✅✅ -uncomfortable getting close to others; difficult to
trust and nervous when people get too close → less investment in relationships,
higher breakup rates, and often feel lonely
bargaining (death) - ✅✅ -try to negotiate out of death by trying to "act good" in
attempt to get life in return
✅✅-uses organ replacement to live longer (replace old organs)
bionic solution -
body transcendence vs body preoccupation - ✅✅-people must be able to cope
with the physical changes of old age; if they do not they become too preoccupied
with how much their body deteriorates
boomerang children - ✅✅ -children that leave but later on come back home; this
often happens due to economic issues
brain death - ✅✅ -a diagnosis of death based on the cessation of all signs of
brain activity, as measured by electrical brain waves
, burnout - ✅✅ -a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion created by
long-term involvement in an emotionally demanding situation and accompanied
by lowered performance and motivation
career consolidation - ✅✅-occurs when young adults become centered on their
careers
cohabitation - ✅✅ -practice of living together without being married; women see
this as a step toward marriage while men see it as a test for marriage
commitment -✅✅-is a psychological investment in an action or ideology
communal professions - ✅✅--viewed as best for women
-related to relationships like nursing
companionate -✅✅-intimacy and commitment
compassionate grandparenting - ✅✅-act as supporters; grandparents who visit
and call frequently
compassionate love - ✅✅-strong affection for those with whom our lives are
deeply involved
componential - ✅✅ -mental components used to solve problems, esp. using
rational behavior (ex. using the right formula to solve a problem)
components of happiness - ✅✅ -We assess in terms of fulfillment of our
psychological needs; we tend to value these needs more than material needs
*varies between cultures
cons of Erikson's look on intimacy vs. isolation -✅✅ --failure to acknowledge
homosexual relationships, he focused on male perspective, failure to look at
racial/cultural components
-We choose friends based on proximity, race (we pick people "like us), and and
personal qualities
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