Successful aging involves determining the best fit between person and environment within the scope of physical, cognitive, and social changes of late adulthood. This point of view is referred to as ____.
A. selective optimization with compensation
B. specific attention to realistic life expectations
C. refinement of lifetime goals with reparations
D. finding satisfaction with the aging self
Answer: A
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a. historical c. nomothetic b. epidemiological d. analogue
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a. the representativeness heuristic b. the availability heuristic c. anchoring and adjustment d. means-ends analysis
The principle that human development is genetically determined and that it operates in terms of the unfolding of stages in an invariant sequence is the:
a. epiphenomenon principle b. epigenetic principle c. ego psychology principle d. unfolding stage principle
Mental skills that are acquired as a result of living in a particular culture are called
a. instincts. c. fluid intelligence. b. inherited intelligence. d. crystallized intelligence.