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What is the term for feeling whole, complete, and satisfied with one's achievements?
ego integrity
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What is the term for feeling many decisions were wrong, but now time is short?
despair
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What is the term that refers to a cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward beyond self?
gerotranscendence
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What is the term for the ability to maximize positive emotion and minimize negative emotion, and improves in old age?
affect optimization
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What is the term for the tendency to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences rather than negative ones?
positivity effect
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What is the term for when a person recalls, reflects upon, and reconsiders meaning of past experiences?
life review
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What is the term that refers to a model of changes in our social networks as we move through life?
social convoy
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What is name of the social theory of aging that states that mutual withdrawal of elders and society in anticipation of death?
disengagement theory
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What is name of the social theory of aging that states that social barriers to engagement cause declining interaction?
activity theory
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What is name of the social theory of aging that states that one strives to promote life satisfaction via consistency between past and future?
continuity theory
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What is name of the social theory of aging that states that social networks become more selective with age and is a lifelong process, and emphasizes emotion-regulating functions of social contact?
socioemotional selectivity theory
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