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Abrupt and disruptive change caused by conflicts among one's various roles in life.
Role Discontinuity
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Older Men and Women become more androgynous
Crossover
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Inability to engage in the sexual act
Inpotency
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Removal of all or part of the male prostate gland.
Prostatectomy
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Most characteristics of parenthood, a time during which sacrafices are gladly made for the sake of the children.
generative love
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The capacity to cherish the present moment, perhaps first learned when we confront the certainty of our own personal death
Generative Love
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Human beings who are able to keep up the social activity of their middle years are considered the most successful.
Activity theory
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The most mature adults are likely to gradually disengage themselves from their fellow human beings in preparation for death.
Disengagement theory
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Humans use social contect for four reasons: to obtain physical survival, to get information they need, to maintain a sense of self, and to acquire pleasure and comfort
Socioemotional selectivity theory
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The resolution of each of the first seven crises in erickson's theory should lead us to achieve a sense of personal______. Older adults feel their lives are well spent.
Integrity.
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When people look back over their lives and feel that they have made many wrong decisions or, more commonly, that they have not made any decisions at all
Despair
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