Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ageism, Old Age, Baby Talk

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

Document Summary

Stereotypes: cognition: stereotypes are composited of beliefs that we attribute to categories/groups of people, culture specific, categorize people to reflect the value hierarchies within culture, ca(cid:374) (cid:271)e +(cid:859)(cid:448)e, -(cid:858)(cid:448)e, (cid:374)eutral. Negative forgetful, poor drivers, dependent on family, inflexible, old fashioned. Language and aging: positive (senior, senior citizen, mature adult, retired person, older adult, elder, negative (geezer, fossil, old fogey) Age prejudice/ageism: cognition (thought) and emotion, negative attitudes/beliefs toward older adults based on belief that aging makes people, unattractive, unintelligent, asexual, unemployable, mentally incompetent. Age discrimination: behaviour, treating people in an unjustly negative manner because of their chronological age (or appearance of age) and for no other reason, behaviour that is based on prejudices and stereotyping based on aging. Age stratification: population is divided into age strata such as youth, adulthood, old age. Encountering older adults: encounter old person recognition of old age cues stereotyped expectations, old age cues, physical signs, clothing, aids, social roles, social context, communication, stereotyped expectations.