Baltes and His Colleagues Assert That a Life-Span Perspective on Development

question 34

Essay

Baltes and his colleagues assert that a life-span perspective on development includes growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss. How do those three characteristics shift with age?

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Definitions:

Availability Bias

A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the probability of events associated with memorable or vivid occurrences.

Clustering Illusion

The cognitive bias of seeing a pattern in random events where none actually exists.

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Outperform

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