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🎯 Main Points

Wisdom

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

🔑 Key Definitions

Wisdom: The application of intelligence and experience for the common good 🦉✨
Successful Aging: Avoiding disease, engaging with life, and maintaining cognitive/physical functioning 👴🌟
Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC): Baltes's model for adapting to aging 📊

👤 Important Figures

  • Rowe & Kahn - Model of Successful Aging 📊
  • Paul Baltes - Berlin Wisdom Paradigm, SOC Model 🧠

🧠 Key Terms

  • MacArthur Foundation Study - Identified factors in successful aging
  • Selection - Focusing on fewer goals (SOC)
  • Optimization - Maximizing resources (SOC)
  • Compensation - Finding alternative ways (SOC)

💡 Exam Tips

  • Know the 3 components of Successful Aging (avoid disease, engage life, maintain function) 3️⃣
  • SOC Model: Selection → Optimization → Compensation 🔄
  • Wisdom in Islam: Hikmah (حكمة) - applying knowledge for benefit 📖