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biomedicalization of aging
the belief that problems associated with aging are biological rather than social and behavioral.
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Self-concept
The way in which a person sees himself or herself as being.
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Social construction of self
Addresses the idea that the way we interpret events in our lives is partially a reflection of how we are treated, and partially the extent to which we have internalized the way society has defined or categorized us.
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Phenomonology
The meaning of an event is defined by the person experiencing that event.
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Cultural Lag
Makes our attitudes and cultural beliefs slower to change than the technology and social awareness that has improved our longevity.
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Media Watch Task
Supported by the Gray Panthers, to identify and protest television programs that present stereotypical and unrealistic portrayals of elderly people.
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Reversed stereotype of aging
Depicting older individuals as "younger" doing activities such as racecar driving, break dancing
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Patronizing communication
Over-accomadation in communication based on stereotyped expectations of incompetence.
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Communication accomadation theory
people modify their speech and behavior based on their assessment of their communication partner.
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authoritarian personality
less-educated, rigid, untrusting, insecure persons are the ones who hold prejudices.
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Frustration-agression hypothesis
Those who are frustrated, perhaps by poverty and low status, take it out in aggression towards others.
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Selective perception
We see what we expect to see and selectively ignore what we do not expect to see.
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