Problem 1: Describe procedural, semantic, and episodic memory, and give a concrete example from your own life for each system. Also, indicate how vulnerable each facet of memory is to deterioration.
Problem 2: Discuss the basic principles of Laura Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory. Accompany your discussion with specific examples from the lives of older people you know. What is your opinion of Carstensen's idea that people get happier in later life?
Problem 3: Watch this video. Imagine you are working on the crisis line, and have a brief encounter with a man who recently lost his wife. He asked you for advice about how to help his 16-year-old daughter. Based on the video and your textbook (pay specific attention to table 15.2), What are three things that you would say to the dad to help himself and his child?
YouTube Video: Against Grieving in Silence | Rachel Stephenson | TEDxCUNY
Problem 4: Let's talk about the concept of good deaths. What does it mean for a person to have a good death? After reading your textbook section on good deaths as well as watching this video, list four goals of good deaths that are most important to you. Rank order them so that the most important is number 1, the next important one is number 2, and so on. For each of these end-of-life goals, explain why it is important.
YouTube Video: How to do a Good Death | Jane Duncan Rogers | TEDxFindhornSalon