PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Old Age, Long-Term Memory
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Functionalist perspective: first to articulate this in terms of development. Where you are now, there are any number of people you could become and no future version is better than the other. What future person you become depends on the choices you make. Various potentialities will disappear and new one will manifest. At every decision there is going to be a tradeoff between what you are going to get and what you are going to lose. There is no perfect choice where you gain without losing and best you can. The completeness of a life concerns this ratio of gains to losses and the fact that life is incomplete it is because as you move across life, the ratio of gains. As we entered the 20th century people were lucky if they live to their 50s but now people are living until their 60s.
