Psychology - SEMESTER 4
- Created by: ggmonkey
- Created on: 16-06-20 15:08
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- Communicate Risk
- Verbal probability
- Can't just say words like 'probably' and 'unlikely'
- Need to consider
- Don't make assumptions about
- How to give risk information
- Signpost numerical data
- Use absolute risk
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- Verbal probability
- Ageing
- Changes
- Brain function declines
- Vulnerability
- Lifespan development
- Bio-psychological model
- Brain ageing is the best determinant of psychological changes
- Brain cell loss = deterioration of brain cell power
- Loss of wisdom is less common than loss of wit
- Wisdom - Crystalised intelligence
- Wit - fluid intelligence
- Normal degeneration shouldn't interfere with normal life
- Bio-psycho-social model
- Bernie Neugarten
- The more predictable the event, the less adjustment
- Positive illusion
- More likely to overestimate good things and underestimate bad things
- Life course events
- Trauma is good to an extent as a child
- No trauma is also bad
- Character has to change with age
- Old people are happier because they do everything now
- Bernie Neugarten
- Psycho-social model
- Erikson's stages
- At each stage in life, we face a different psycho-social crisis
- Resolution helps establish an emergent trait or vurtue
- Helps us adress callenges later in life
- Resolution helps establish an emergent trait or vurtue
- At each stage in life, we face a different psycho-social crisis
- Key adult qualities
- Sence of identity
- Being somebody
- Capacity for intimacy
- Having somebody
- Experience of generativity
- Helping somebody
- Aquisition of integrity
- Taking responsibilty
- Sence of identity
- Masked depression
- High suicide rates in older males - had a nice life
- Erikson's stages
- Changes
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