Glossary I

Glossary I

Integrative motivation means nterest in learning a second language for the purpose of associating with members of the culture in which that language is spoken.

Integrative reminiscence refers to reminiscence that involves reviewing one's past in order to find meaning or to reconcile one's current and prior feelings about certain life events.

Integrative solution refers to a solution to a conflict whereby the parties make trade-offs on issues according to their different interests; each side concedes the most on issues that are unimportant to it but important to the other side

Integrity is defined as the ability to accept the facts of one's life and to face death without great fear. The sense of integrity is usually acquired toward the end of later adulthood.

Integrity Shoppers are Investigators who test the integrity of retail personnel

Integrity versus Despair refers to a conflict in old age between feelings of integrity and the despair of viewing previous life events with regret. According to Erikson, Integrity versus Despair is the process in late life by which people try to make sense of their lives

- Integrity vs. despair (late adult) :

Englisch: Erik Erikson 's Theory of Psychosocial Development stages
Integrity vs. despair (late adult) refers to the 8th stage of Erik Erikson's theory of Psychosocial development where at t the end of life, individuals can either feel complete or incomplete; they can either have integrity or fall into despair.

Intellective task refers to a project, problem, or other type of task with results that can be evaluated objectively using some normative criterion, such as a mathematics problem with a known solution or the spelling of a word.