Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Virtual Reality, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Social Cognition
30 Mar 2017
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Epigenetic principle each stage unfolds from the previous stage in predestined order but people may experience psychosocial issue at an age other than the one shown where it crosses the diagonal. Limitations of this theory you may experience generativity at a younger age or even the ego integrity at a younger age. Things don"t always happen in the stepwise process described in erikson"s model. Identity process theory ways in which people cope when they are older. Threshold experience there is a tipping point where you start to feel a little different, in relation to aging this could be like having an experience that reminds you that you are old. There are a few ways in which people can deal with these issues; identity assimilation, identity balance, and identity accommodation. Assimilation blaming all the external factors, the identity is intact, this can lead to unhealthy denial.
