Adult and Aging Chapter 14 Flashcards

3572930740	Rowe and Kahn definition of successful aging	the absence of disease, high cognitive and physical function, and engagement in life.	0
3572926643	World Health Organization (WHO) definition of active aging	the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation, and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age.	1
3572904724	successful cognitive aging	defined as cognitive performance that is above the average for an individual's age group as objectively measured.	2
3572904725	positive psychology	seeks to provide a greater understanding of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.	3
3572906877	life satisfaction	the overall assessment of an individual's feelings and attitudes about one's life at a particular point in time.	4
3572908509	subjective well-being	an individual's overall sense of happiness.	5
3572908510	paradox of well-being	the well-established finding that older adults maintain high subjective well-being despite facing challenges from their objective circumstances.	6
3572908511	social indicator model	demographic and social structural variables, such as age, gender, marital status, and income, account for individual differences in levels of well-being.	7
3572910750	set point perspective	the view that people's personalities influence their level of well-being throughout life.	8
3572912888	social comparison	the process that occurs when people rate themselves relative to their primary reference group.	9
3572937623	life story	the individual's narrative view of his or her own past.	10
3572914917	creativity	the ability to generate products or ideas that are original, appropriate, and have an impact on others.	11
3572914918	Planck hypothesis	the tendency of peak scientific productivity to occur in early adulthood.	12
3572916229	career age	the age at which an individual begins to embark on his or her career.	13
3572916230	creative potential	the total number of works that a person could hypothetically produce in a life span with no upper limits.	14
3572917541	equal odds rule	the principle that creative inividuals who produce more works are more likely to produce one or more of high quality than are those who produce fewer works.	15
3572918833	old-age style	an approach to art that eliminates the fine details and instead presents the essence of the work's intended meaning.	16
3572921413	swan song	a creative work produced at the very end of an artist's life.	17
3572921414	lastingness	the quality of an older artist's work that allows it to persist over time.	18