1)What are some ways that older adults as a group tend to shift in terms of their personality characteristics, their views of reality, and their remembered experiences? 2)What are the psychosocial confl icts that organize each of the eight stages of Erikson’s theory of lifespan development? 3)What is the evidence for a distinct period when a person is in his 40s that is known as the “midlife crisis”? 4)What are some factors that have contributed to greatly changed views of what it means to be old?