Human Growth and Development / Unit 16 HGD 2262 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dynamic Integration Theory
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The idea
Labouvie-Vief's dynamic integration theory holds that cognition and emotion integrate across adulthood, making emotional responses more complex and tolerant of mixed feelings.
In practice
A seventy-year-old feeling both grief and gratitude at a friend's funeral, holding both at once.
Where people slip
The integration weakens in very late life as fluid intelligence declines.
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