PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Daniel Levinson, Erik Erikson, Personality Development
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Learning objectives: personality development and successful aging, personality development and successful aging. What do you think these are: continuity and change in personality, profound social environmental changes throughout adulthood may produce fluctuations and. Some discontinuities in development: discontinuities of development: what do theorists say, changes in personality occur as a result of new challenges in later adulthood. Ego-integrity-versus despair: process of looking back over one"s life, evaluating it, and coming to terms with it. Comes when people feel they have realized and fulfilled the possibilities that have come their way: despair. Occurs when people feel dissatisfied with their life, and experience gloom, unhappiness, depression, anger, or the feeling that they have failed: robert peck. Personality development in elderly people is occupied by three major developmental tasks or challenges: redefinition of self-versus-preoccupation-with-work-role, body-transcendence-versus-body-preoccupation, daniel levinson. People enter late adulthood by passing through transition stage: view themselves as being old .
