Ch.16

Question 1

Competence

Answer 1

Upper limit of persons ability to function in five domains physical health,sensory perception skills, motor skills, cognitive skills and ego strength

Question 2

Environmental press

Answer 2

Number and types of physical interpersonal or social demands that the environment makes on people

Question 3

Adaptation level

Answer 3

Area where environmental press is average for a particular level of competence

Question 4

Zone of maximum performance potential

Answer 4

In environmental press Theory, the area in which slight increases impress tend to improve performance

Question 5

Proactivity

Answer 5

When people choose new behaviours to meet new desires or needs

Question 6

Docility

Answer 6

When people about the situation to dictate the options they have

Question 7

Integrity versus despair

Answer 7

According to Erickson, a struggle that comes about as older adults tried it integrate their lives with a View of their families and communities futures

Question 8

Life review

Answer 8

Process of reviewing one’s life

Question 9

Subjective well-being

Answer 9

A positive evaluation of one’s life associated with positive feelings

Question 10

Spiritual support

Answer 10

Type of coping in which people seek pastoral care, participate and organize and non-organized religious activities and express faith in a God who cares for people

Question 11

Bridge job

Answer 11

The job one holds between one exit from the career job and final retirement

Question 12

Social convoy

Answer 12

Group of people who journey together throughout their lives and provide each other support and good and bad times

Question 13

Socio emotional selectivity

Answer 13

Way of maintaining social contact that is motivated by many goals including information seeking self-concept and emotional regulation

Question 14

Frail older adults

Answer 14

Older adults who have physical disabilities are very ill and may have cognitive or psychological disorders

Question 15

Activities of daily living

Answer 15

Self-care tasks such as eating bathing toileting walking or dressing

Question 16

Instrumental activities of daily living

Answer 16

Act that require some intellectual competence and planning such as cooking and doing laundry

Question 17

Household

Answer 17

A person or group of persons who occupy the same dwelling

Question 18

Functional health

Answer 18

The ability to perform the activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living

Question 19

Sense of place

Answer 19

The cognitive and emotional attachments that a person puts on their place of residence by which a house is made into a home

Question 20

Assisted living facilities

Answer 20

A supportive living arrangement for people who need assistance with activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living but who are not so Physically or cognitively impaired that they need 24 hour care

Question 21

Continuity theory

Answer 21

View that people tend to cope with daily life in late adulthood and is sensually the same ways to cope in earlier periods of life