PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Life Review, Information Seeking, Proactivity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Lecture 10: late adulthood and the final passage, april 6th, 2016. Final scenario: aging well theories of psychosocial aging. Too little continuity: unpredictability why, stress and lower quality of life. Too much continuity: boredom why, optimal, balance why, need some exploration but good to have some continuity. Internal continuity: personal identity, continuity feelings of competence, mastery, self-esteem, ego-integrity, discontinuity mental health problems. Page 1 of 12: external continuity, remembered physical and social environments, relationships, activities, roles, continuity - being in familiar places with familiar people, discontinuity - change to new environments, loss of relationships, roles. How are competence and press related: e. g. , high competence. Too much continuity for a competent person similar to low environmental press: best fit is specific to individual and time, both competence and environmental press changes across time. How do people respond to changes: proactivity choose new behaviours to meet new desires or need, docility allow the situation to dictate their options.