HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Defence Mechanisms, Social Emotions, Subtext
7 Dec 2016
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Sweet and salty is the first food babies are attracted to, and old people keep those two tastes the longest: old people use a lot of salt and sugar so they can taste what they eat. Integrity: ability to accept the facts of one"s life and face death without great fear. Despair: overwhelming fear or regret, incompetence, disappointment with one"s life: central process: introspection. Talk to others, interpersonal, tell people about what you experiences during your life. Meta message that we communicate to elderly person when we sit and patiently listen: tells them that they are valuable and that they matter. Generativity reflected in actions affecting people you care about. Stagnation: not contributing to benefit of others, spills over into later years when you reflect on whether or not you made a difference. Judge our lives based on relationships with people (not jobs) Very old age: dominant theme: search for personal meaning.
