The Observation That Older Adults Often Become Nostalgic for the "Good

question 17

Multiple Choice

The observation that older adults often become nostalgic for the "good old days" reflects the self-image hypothesis, which states that

• A) life in a society gets more complicated and difficult as generations pass.
• B) memory for life events is enhanced during the time we assume our life identities.
• C) people tend to remember more of the positive events in their lives than negative ones.
• D) our memories change as we live longer and have more "lifetime periods" to draw events from.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A teaching method that employs the repetitive pairing of two stimuli; over time, the response initially caused by the second stimulus becomes caused by the first stimulus alone.

CS

An abbreviation that can stand for "Conditioning Stimulus" in behavioral psychology, relating to the process by which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a reflexive response.

Extinction

In the field of psychology, the slow reduction and final fading of a learned response occurs when the conditioned stimulus isn't combined with the unconditioned stimulus anymore.

Pavlov

Refers to Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist known for his work on classical conditioning, particularly involving the conditioned response of dogs to stimuli.