Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Visual Search, Visual Memory, Western Shoshone

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

Document Summary

Health science 2711 lecture 4 notes: psychological aspects of aging. Each stage unfolds from the previous stage in predestined order, but. People may experience a psychosocial issue at an age other than the one shown where it crosses the diagonal. Problem with this model: states that everything has to go in a particular order. Identity: set of schemas about ourselves favourable view of the self . Threshold experience: moments that make you feel old . Change people that sta(cid:396)t to (cid:396)ealize they"(cid:396)e getti(cid:374)g olde(cid:396), (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g thei(cid:396) ide(cid:374)tity f(cid:396)o(cid:373) a p(cid:396)ofessio(cid:374)al (cid:396)ole to trying to get healthy again. Changing who they are to fit the situation that they are in. Can lead to unhealthy denial: over the hill syndrome. Identity assimilation: unhealthy denial its (cid:374)ot (cid:373)e, it"s the ta, the (cid:448)ague (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s o(cid:396) the p(cid:396)of, blaming it on external factors. Affects of aging on identity: healthy denial. For many people, age related changes in appearance serve to stimulate changes in identity.