PSYC 3490 Lecture Notes - Assistive Technology, Apa Style, Loss Ratio
19 Nov 2012
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Chapter 1 intro to aging and older adulthood. Psychological age: level of maturity, engagement in activities, causes, and belief systems: flexibility, and not set in predictable ways. Social age: deviation away from social norms (eg. 80 year old in school) Non-normative aging: illness, functions impacted, rapid decline in functions, etc. Selective optimization with compensation model of aging (soc. Model: gains and losses ratio through aging. Gain ratio: learning new information, new experiences. Gain:loss ratio shifts towards loss thru aging. Gains changes as well thru aging (eg. knowledge, finances, social status, etc. ) After developing a repertoire, there may be a case of misuse, which is bad for aging: soc in assistive technology development. Costs have to be less than gains. Technology should free up resources rather than consume resources. Need to evaluate the functional change in distant and proximal time. Need to evaluate what happens across time. As soon as a compensation strategy is used, other functioning is compromised aka.
