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Aging - ✔✔The process of becoming old
Aged - ✔✔The state of being old
Aging begins when development ends
Life Span - ✔✔When you are born to where you are now
Max human life span: 120 years
Life Course - ✔✔Perspective shows people how/why theyre aging the way they are
Ageism - ✔✔First stereotypes where we assume certain stereotypes for all population; Prejudice
Chronological Age - ✔✔Actual age
Older Adults - ✔✔Young old (65-74), Middle old (75-84), Oldest old (85+)
Biological Age - ✔✔Biological indicators; disease, genetics, biological factors, dietary factors
Functional Age - ✔✔Abilities, landmarks and losses, ability to do what needs to be done in everyday life
Behavioral/Mental Age - ✔✔Experience
Social Age - ✔✔Age norms, age stratification, age grading, age assignment
Period - ✔✔Range of calendar dates
Cohort - ✔✔Group of people born during a specified period
Whats happening the the world during the specific time and how they experience it.
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,Generation X= '65-'80
Baby Boomers='46-'64
Familial Generation - ✔✔Multi-generational household, 3+ generations in a household
Social Generation - ✔✔Group of people of specific age, different than their parents. (within cohort)
Historic Past - ✔✔Happened before one was born (Biological legacy; cocial/culture legacies)
Life Past - ✔✔(Direct or Indirect)
Actually during lifetime
Immediate Past - ✔✔Minutes/Hours/Days/Months right before the present.
Time is relative.
Present - ✔✔The right now (Direct or Indirect)
Experience venue (Place)
Present vs. Immediate past and immediate future
Experience vs. Memory
Immediate Future - ✔✔Individually defined
Life Span - ✔✔Individual life span (when you die)
Expected life span
Maximum life span (120 years)
Life Course - ✔✔Persons life in context
Phenomenon - ✔✔Something at is
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, Process - ✔✔Something that does
Perspective - ✔✔Helps us explain
Trajectory/Life Path - ✔✔The way you experience life
Exogenous Factors - ✔✔External factors
Endogenous Factors - ✔✔Internal factors
Events - ✔✔Happenings
Transitions - ✔✔Changes in state of existance
Experiences - ✔✔Direct personal
Indirect personal - happens to someone close to you
In direct impersonal - not to you/someone you know
Experience Filters - ✔✔How we experience something is based on....
Venue complexity
Personality
Culture/Traditions
Habits
Social forces
Time
Memory
Sensory Memory - ✔✔Decay in a second or less
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Aging - ✔✔The process of becoming old
Aged - ✔✔The state of being old
Aging begins when development ends
Life Span - ✔✔When you are born to where you are now
Max human life span: 120 years
Life Course - ✔✔Perspective shows people how/why theyre aging the way they are
Ageism - ✔✔First stereotypes where we assume certain stereotypes for all population; Prejudice
Chronological Age - ✔✔Actual age
Older Adults - ✔✔Young old (65-74), Middle old (75-84), Oldest old (85+)
Biological Age - ✔✔Biological indicators; disease, genetics, biological factors, dietary factors
Functional Age - ✔✔Abilities, landmarks and losses, ability to do what needs to be done in everyday life
Behavioral/Mental Age - ✔✔Experience
Social Age - ✔✔Age norms, age stratification, age grading, age assignment
Period - ✔✔Range of calendar dates
Cohort - ✔✔Group of people born during a specified period
Whats happening the the world during the specific time and how they experience it.
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,Generation X= '65-'80
Baby Boomers='46-'64
Familial Generation - ✔✔Multi-generational household, 3+ generations in a household
Social Generation - ✔✔Group of people of specific age, different than their parents. (within cohort)
Historic Past - ✔✔Happened before one was born (Biological legacy; cocial/culture legacies)
Life Past - ✔✔(Direct or Indirect)
Actually during lifetime
Immediate Past - ✔✔Minutes/Hours/Days/Months right before the present.
Time is relative.
Present - ✔✔The right now (Direct or Indirect)
Experience venue (Place)
Present vs. Immediate past and immediate future
Experience vs. Memory
Immediate Future - ✔✔Individually defined
Life Span - ✔✔Individual life span (when you die)
Expected life span
Maximum life span (120 years)
Life Course - ✔✔Persons life in context
Phenomenon - ✔✔Something at is
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, Process - ✔✔Something that does
Perspective - ✔✔Helps us explain
Trajectory/Life Path - ✔✔The way you experience life
Exogenous Factors - ✔✔External factors
Endogenous Factors - ✔✔Internal factors
Events - ✔✔Happenings
Transitions - ✔✔Changes in state of existance
Experiences - ✔✔Direct personal
Indirect personal - happens to someone close to you
In direct impersonal - not to you/someone you know
Experience Filters - ✔✔How we experience something is based on....
Venue complexity
Personality
Culture/Traditions
Habits
Social forces
Time
Memory
Sensory Memory - ✔✔Decay in a second or less
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