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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 ______
Note 
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