According to Carstensen, How Do Older Adults Maximise Their Emotional

question 71

Multiple Choice

According to Carstensen, how do older adults maximise their emotional well-being during older adulthood?

• A) By increasing the number of social contacts
• B) By limiting their social contact to family members exclusively
• C) By withdrawing from all social contacts
• D) By becoming increasingly selective in their social contacts

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Definitions:

Finke’s Principle

A concept proposed by Ronald Finke that suggests creative imagery involves the dynamic interaction of perceptual and conceptual processes.

Mental Imagery

Refers to the simulation or recreation of perceptual experience in the mind in the absence of the relevant external stimuli.

Implicit Encoding

A principle of imagery holding that mental imagery is used in retrieving information about physical properties of objects, or about physical relationships among objects, that might not have been explicitly encoded.

Structural Encoding

The process of converting sensory input into a meaningful perceptual representation based on the structure of objects.