Chapter 10 Textbook

support

Social ______ can go a long way in dampening the negative effects of aging.

personality

The actor, agent and author live together in one personality; not as separate selves but as 3 different psychological perspectives from which the self considers itself.

generativity

The concept of adult _____ has sometimes been seen as an artful and creative response to mortality.

Personal fable

Teenagers secretly imagine their lives as fantastical stories of greatness and distinction

Midlife stagnation

Maturation expected for dispositional traits, goals, and narrative identity never really happens

Despair

An older person rejects their own life as something that has not been good or worthy and they are filled with regrets and recriminations

Ego integrity

An older person accepts one's life as having been a worthwhile endeavour

Alzheimer's

Disease that destroys the material out of which narrative identity is to be made, undermining the authors fundamental reason for being

Sense of an ending

functions to shape how stories unfold and how characters lives develop in good fiction

Successful aging

fulfilling, attainment of wisdom

Dementia

eventually strips away the episodic memory upon which the narrative self is built

Theory of socioemotional selectivity

theory that claims that when people experience a shorter time perspective for the future, they focus on keeping hold of those people and experiences that are most near and dear

Laura Carstensen

developed the theory of socioemotional selectivity

planning

Long-term _____ skills erode in the later years

stability

Personality _____ may decline in the later years of life

positive

People may reverse the gains they have made on ______ personality traits

break

The strong rank-order continuity of traits begins to _____ down in the last years, reversing a lifelong trend

increase

Negative emotional states _____ with age

N, mortality

After age 75, there are rising levels of ___ and sharp increases in N have been shown to predict ______

anxiety

Advanced aging brings with it a substantial decline in coping skills and mechanisms for defending against _____

fewer

Older adults tend to recall ____ vivid details from their past

reader

Ego integrity shifts the older person’s focus somewhat from author to _____

varied

The final chapters in people’s lives are as _____ as there are people on the earth

relationships

In the final chapter of life, what matters most in the story is _______

health, love

As people age, their goals are more about maintaining their ___ and staying close to the people they ______

decline

As people age, traits related to self-regulation (C + A) may begin to _____

alone

We begin life as social actors, performing in the group and being relentlessly social until the last moment, where we die ______