North Seattle Community College's

PSYCHOLOGY 200 LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Instructor: Nancy Jago Finley, nfinle@sccd.ctc.edu

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE SUGGESTED SEMINAR DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Looking into your own future, what do you anticipate your physical condition will be when you are 80? Use text material to inform your prediction.

2. What changes do you anticipate will occur in attitudes toward, and treatment of, the elderly between now and the time when you are 80 years old? Point to text material to support your ideas.

3. Give some examples of primary aging and secondary aging. Discuss how secondary aging could be slowed down or minimized.

4. What do you believe makes a person "old?" Point to text material to support your ideas.