PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Positive Psychology, Psych, Stereotype Threat
3 Apr 2017
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Younger people perceive time as expansive: not necessarily thinking about end of life, still future oriented. Older people perceive time as limited: present oriented, i often feel that death is not the enemy of life, but its friend. For it"s knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious . Carstensen on advertising slogans: showed younger and older people different adds which do you like better. Capture those special moments vs. capture the unexplored world. Older adults engage in positivity biases more than younger adults. Mather & carstensen (2003) stimulus examples: positive, negative, or neutral. Charles, mather, & carstenses (2003: what do you remember/ what are you encoding, should be encoding more positive things. Younger adults positive and negative images both better remembered than neutral. Older adults significantly more positive images encoded than negative and neutral (neutral higher, but not significant: amygdala activation. Pattern matched what we see in results.
