Main Ideas from Lindeman 2017 & Dahlke & Ory 2017 Articles. correct answers Virtual assistance and technology with older adults
Main ideas from President Packer's talk correct answers Value the old folks for what they are, not just what they can do.
Benefits and challenges of the successful aging paradigm correct answers Good health
Emotionally stable
Engaged and connected
There are a lot of people who do better than younger people.
Encoding correct answers declines with aging
Storage correct answers does not decline with aging
Retrieval correct answers declines with age
Factors that influence information processing of older adults correct answers complexity of the situation
speed of the information
organization
recall vs. recognition
Working memory correct answers declines with age
actively holding and using memory
Source memory correct answers declines with age
the ability to remember the source of a familiar even as well as the ability to determine if an even
was imagined or actually experienced
flashbub memories correct answers memories for personally traumatic or unexpected events.
Semantic memory correct answers declines with age
Episodic memory correct answers declines with age
Factors that preserve memory reserve correct answers exercises, multilingualism, using words you know to remember events that happen, external memory aids, internal memory aids
How primary and secondary mental abilities are related correct answers Primary abilities: declines in primary abilities over time
Secondary mental abilities: Grouping primary and general mental abilities Crystalized intelligence correct answers the amount of cultural knowledge a person has. Generally does not decline with age.
Crystalized intelligence is experienced based knowledge and pragmatics.
fluid intelligence correct answers information processing and mechanics. Ability to do abstract thinking, inductive reasoning and integration. Declines significantly with age.
Aging-related trends in crystalized and fluid intelligence correct answers Crystalized intelligence
goes up and stabilizes.
Fluid intelligence spikes in adulthood and then declines in later adulthood.
How wisdom is developed correct answers Experience, ability, mentor or practice.
Multi-directionality correct answers differing patterns of change
Plasticity correct answers range of function in which abilities can be modified
Jung's theory on personality stability or change correct answers personality changes: gender and introversion vs.extraversion
Costa & McRea's theory on personality stability or change correct answers After age 30, no personality changes.
Costa & McRae's Big 5 correct answers O- openness to experience
C-Conscientiousness
E-Extraversion
A-Agreeableness
N-Neuroticism
Erickson's theory on personality change or stability correct answers Personality changes
McAdam's theory on personality change or stability correct answers Personality changes with age
Whitbourne's theory on personality change or stability correct answers Personality changes
Life Narrative Theory correct answers Personality Changes
Self-concept & well-being correct answers changes with age
Trait Perspective correct answers Stable
Hooker & McAdams six foci model correct answers Both changes and stays stable
Burnout correct answers depletion of a person's energy and motivation, the loss of occupational idealism, and the feeling that one is being exploited. Most common in helping professions.