[18] Human Development (11Th Ed.) By Papalia

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What is ego integrity versus despair?

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According to Erikson, the eight and final stage of psychosocial development, in which people in late adulthood either achieve a sense of integrity of the self by accepting the lives they have lived, and thus accept death, or yield to despair that their lives cannot be relived.

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What is coping?

Back 2

Adaptive thinking or behavior aimed at reducing or relieving stress that arises from harmful, threatening, or challenging conditions.

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What is the cognitive-appraisal model?

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Model of coping, proposed by Lazarus and Folkman, which holds that, on the basis of continuous appraisal of their relationship with the environment, people choose appropriate coping strategies to deal with situations that tax their normal resources.

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What is problem-focused coping?

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In the cognitive-appraisal model, it is a coping strategy directed toward eliminating, managing, or improving a stressful situation.

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What is emotion-focused coping?

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In the cognitive-appraisal model, coping strategy directed toward managing the emotional response to a stressful situation so as to lessen its physical or psychological impact.

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What is disengagement theory?

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Theory of aging, proposed by Cumming and Henry, which holds that successful aging is characteriszed by mutual withdrawal of the older person and society.

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What is the activity theory?

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Theory of aging, proposed by Neugarten and others, which holds that in order to age successfully a person must remain as active as possible.

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What is the continuity theory?

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Theory of aging, described by Atchley, which holds that in order to age successfully people must maintain a balance of continuity and change in both the internal and external structures of their lives.

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What is selective optimization with compesnsation (SOC)?

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Enhacning over all cognitive functioning by using stronger abilities to compensate for those that have weakened.

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What is family-focused lifestyle?

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Pattern of retirement activity that revolves around family, home, and companions.

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What is family-focused lifestyle (when referring to retirement)?

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Pattern of retirement activity that revolves around family, home, and companions.

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What is balanced investment (when referring to retirement)?

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Pattern of retirement activity allocated among family, work, and leisure.

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What is serious leisure?

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Leisure activity requiring skill, attention, and commitment.
ex. chess, sailing, golf, etc.

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What is aging in place?

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Remaining in one's own home, with or without assistance, in later life.