Social ______ can go a long way in dampening the negative effects of aging.
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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.
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generativity
The concept of adult _____ has sometimes been seen as an artful and creative response to mortality.
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Personal fable
Teenagers secretly imagine their lives as fantastical stories of greatness and distinction
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Midlife stagnation
Maturation expected for dispositional traits, goals, and narrative identity never really happens
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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
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Ego integrity
An older person accepts one's life as having been a worthwhile endeavour
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Alzheimer's
Disease that destroys the material out of which narrative identity is to be made, undermining the authors fundamental reason for being
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Sense of an ending
functions to shape how stories unfold and how characters lives develop in good fiction
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Successful aging
fulfilling, attainment of wisdom
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Dementia
eventually strips away the episodic memory upon which the narrative self is built
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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
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Laura Carstensen
developed the theory of socioemotional selectivity
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planning
Long-term _____ skills erode in the later years
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stability
Personality _____ may decline in the later years of life
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positive
People may reverse the gains they have made on ______ personality traits
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break
The strong rank-order continuity of traits begins to _____ down in the last years, reversing a lifelong trend
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increase
Negative emotional states _____ with age
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N, mortality
After age 75, there are rising levels of ___ and sharp increases in N have been shown to predict ______
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anxiety
Advanced aging brings with it a substantial decline in coping skills and mechanisms for defending against _____
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fewer
Older adults tend to recall ____ vivid details from their past
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reader
Ego integrity shifts the older person’s focus somewhat from author to _____
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varied
The final chapters in people’s lives are as _____ as there are people on the earth
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relationships
In the final chapter of life, what matters most in the story is _______
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health, love
As people age, their goals are more about maintaining their ___ and staying close to the people they ______
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decline
As people age, traits related to self-regulation (C + A) may begin to _____
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alone
We begin life as social actors, performing in the group and being relentlessly social until the last moment, where we die ______
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