PSY 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kurt Lewin, Social Cognition, Continuing Care Retirement Communities In The United States
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Understand how people view their environments and how these views may change as people age. Four that have affected views of adult development and aging: competence and environmental press, congruence, stress and coping, loss continuum concept. Similar to the role of personal perception in social cognition and in concepts such as personal control. Competence: the theoretical upper limit of a person"s capacity to function: lawton and nahemow 5 domains: Ego strength: underlie all abilities and are lifelong, not easy to measure, problem most measures of the components involve the environment in some way. Environments can be classified on the basis of the varying demands they place on the person, a notion called environmental press: environmental press can include any combinations of three types of demands: Interpersonal various pressures we feel to get along with other people. Behaviour is a result of a person of a particular competence level acting in an environment of a specific press level.
