PSY3128 TWO

facilitate the abilities to consider challenging life events from multiple perspectives

transmission of wisdom

flexibility

nonjudgmental awareness and emotional regulation

• 1. general person factors
• 2. expertise specific factors
• 3. facilitative experiential contexts

• - exceptionally good judgment
• - good advice
• - insightful commentary about difficult and uncertain matters of life
• - non verbal behaviors associated with good conducts, emotion regulation, and empathy in interpersonal and group contexts

period of late adolescence and early adulthood primary age

each phase of life course fosters its own specific wisdom related knowledge

simply getting older and reaching old age is not sufficient condition for wisdom

• - openness to experience
• - generatively
• - cognitive style
• - contact with excellent mentors
• - some exposure to structured and critical life experience

delay of onset disability

phenotypes

traits greater reliability

negative physiological effects due to exposure to stress

Hemispheric Asymmetry Reduction in Older Adults

response to mildstressor

Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor

capacity to withstand neuropathological damage

capacity to maintain performance in presence of neuropathological damage

Hypothalmic Pituitary Adrenal

capacity to recover from stress or adversity

Cogntive and Emotional Health Project

- getting a maximum satisfaction out of life

- maintaining independence and maximizing well being

- striving for compression of morbidity

• 1. avoiding disease and disability
• 2. engagement with life
• 3. high cognitive and physical function

• - physical function/disability
• - cognitive ability
• - life satisfaction
• - social functioning
• - absence of disease