Remembering to Take Your Prescribed Medications at a Specific Time

question 11

Multiple Choice

Remembering to take your prescribed medications at a specific time of day best illustrates

• A) the social clock.
• B) a critical period.
• C) prospective memory.
• D) a death-deferral phenomenon.

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Definitions:

Identity Assimilation

Whitbourne’s term for effort to fit new experience into an existing self-concept.

Identity Style

The way an individual approaches forming and revising their personal identity and beliefs.

Accommodative

Adaptation by which the mind reconciles contradictory perceptions and adapts cognitive frameworks to account for new experiences.

Comprehensive

Covering or including everything, thorough and complete in scope or coverage.