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Chapter 5. Person-Environment Interactions
Adult Development and Aging
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/23/2012

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Adaptation Level
Definition
In Lawton and Nahemow's model, the point at which competence and environmental press are in balance.
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Adult Day Care
Definition
Designed to provide support, companionship, and certain services during the day.
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Assisted Living Facilities
Definition
Housing options for older adults that provide a supportive living arrangement for people who need assistance with personal care (such as bathing or taking medications) but who are not so impaired physically or cognitively that they need 24-hour care.
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Competence
Definition
In lawton and Nahemow's model, the theoretical upper limit of a persons ability to function.
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Congruence Model
Definition
In Kahana's model, the notion that people need to find the environment in which they fit and that meets their needs the best.
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Docility
Definition
When people allow the situation to dictate the options they have and exert little control.
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Ecology of Aging
Definition
Also called environmental psychology, a field of study that seeks to understand the dynamic relations between older adults and the environment which they inhabit.
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Environmental Press
Definition
In Lawtons and Nahemow's model, the demands put on a person by the environment.
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Everyday Competence
Definition
A person's potential ability to perform a wide range of activities considered essential for independent living.
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Infantilization or Elderspeak
Definition
"Secondary baby talk", a type of speech that incolces the unwarranted use of a person's first name, terms of endearment, simplified expressions, short imperatives, an assumption that the recipient has no memory, and cajoling as a means of demanding compliance.
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Patronizing Speech
Definition
Inappropriate speech to older adults that is based on stereotypes of incompetence and dependence.
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Person-Environment Interactions
Definition
This interface between people and the world in which they live that forms the basis for development, meaning that behavior is a function of both the person and the environment.
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Proactivity
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When people choose new behaviors to meet new desires or needs and exert control over their lives.
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Zone of Maximum Comfort
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In competence-environment press theory, area in which slight decreases in environmental processes occur.
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Zone of Maximum Performance Potential
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In competence-environmental press theory, the area in which increases in press tend to improve performance.
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