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9- Developmental Psychology Flashcards

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Fertilized egg; enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

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Zygote

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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

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Developmental psychology

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The developing human organism from about 2 weeks to the 2nd month

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Embryo

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The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

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Fetus

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Formed by the outer cells of the zygote; attaches to the uterine wall, and transfers nutrients and oxygen from mother to fetus

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Placenta

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Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

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Teratogen

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Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant women’s heavy drinking; in severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial mis proportions.

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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation; getting used to something

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Habituation

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Prefer sights and sounds that facilitate social responsiveness

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Child’s preferences/novelties

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At birth, we have most of the brain cells we will have

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Brain development in infancy

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Shuts down excess connections and strengthens others

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Pruning process

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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience

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Maturation

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Learning to walk is a part of …

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Motor development in infancy

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No clear memories prior to age three; immature hippocampus and frontal lobes

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Infantile amnesia

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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Cognition

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Interested in children’s cognitive abilities in the 1920s

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Piaget

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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

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Schema

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Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

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Assimilation

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Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information

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Accommodation

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Sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, formal operational stage

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Piaget’s theory and current thinking

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The stage (from birth to 2 years) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities; involves object permanence and stranger anxiety

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Sensorimotor stage

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The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

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Object permanence

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The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning about 8 months

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Stranger anxiety

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Stage (from 2 years to about 6 or 7 years) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic; involves pretend play, egocentrism, and the inability to comprehend conservation

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Preoperational stage

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The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

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Conservation

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The preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view

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Egocentrism

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The stage (from 6 or 7 years to 11 years) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events; involves conservation and mathematical transformations

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Concrete operational stage

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Stage (normally begins around 12 years) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts; involves abstract logic and potential for mature moral reasoning

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Formal operational stage

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People’s ideas about their own and other’s mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts- and behaviors these might predict

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Theory of mind

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Studied how a child’s mind feeds on the language of social interaction

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Lev Vygotsky

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  • Development is more continuous
  • influential theory
  • larger emphasis on social factors
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Piaget’s theory

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The zone between what they could learn with and without help

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Zone of proximal development

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A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of other’s states of mind

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Autism

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An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress upon separation

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Attachment

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Body contact

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Harlow’s studies

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An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism’s exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development

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Critical period

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The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life; studied by Konrad Lorenz with birds

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Imprinting

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A person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

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Temperament

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Secure attachment

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Insecure attachment

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A sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers

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Basic trust

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Our understanding and evaluation of who we are

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Self-concept

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How we feel about who we are

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Self-esteem

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Begins when we recognize ourselves in a mirror; how our behavior affects others

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Self-awareness

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Parents who impose rules and expect obedience; children have less social skills and low self-esteem

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Authoritarian parents

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Parents who submit to their child’s desires; children are more aggressive and immature

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Permissive parents

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Parents who are both demanding and responsive; children have high self-esteem, social competence, and self-reliance

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Authoritative parents

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Studied parenting styles and their child’s behavior

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Baumrind

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The biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female

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Gender

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  • More socially dominant
  • more directive
  • over represented in government
  • professions pay more
  • play in large groups and competitively
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Male social development

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  • more democratic
  • professions pay less
  • not as much represented in government
  • bond the family together
  • turn for help in times of stress
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Female social development

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Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone

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Aggression

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  • Physical aggression
  • relational aggression- intentionally excluding someone
  • verbal aggression
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Types of aggression

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X and Y chromosomes

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Sex chromosomes

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Found in both men and women; females- 2; males- 1

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X-chromosome

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Found only in males; produces a male child when paired with an X from the mother

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Y-Chromosome

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Most important of the male sex hormones; additional levels of this hormone in males stimulates the growth of male sex organs

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Testosterone

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A set of expected behaviors for males or for females

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Gender role

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A set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave

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Role

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Our sense of being male or female

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Gender identity

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The acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role

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Gender typing

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Theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded

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Social learning theory

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Developed set of rules for being male or female and putting people into groups based on your rules

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Gender schema

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Impoverished environment–>impoverished brain cells

Enriched environment–>enriched brain cell

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Experience and brain development

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Influence our peer group, religious faith, college and career choices, and political views

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Parental influences

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Influence the way we talk, act, and dress

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Peer influences

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The transition period childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence; longer today than before; now 12-25

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Adolescence

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The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing

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Puberty

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Required for reproduction; ovaries, testes, and external genitalia

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Primary sex characteristics

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Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair

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Secondary sex characteristics

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The first menstral period

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Menarche

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Studied Morality in humans

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Kohlberg

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Before age 9, morality focuses on self-interest (avoiding punishment and gaining rewards)

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Pre-conventional morality

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By early adolescence, morality focuses on caring for others and on upholding laws and social rules

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Conventional morality

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Reach upon the gaining the abstract reasoning of formal operational thoughts; not everyone reaches this level; actions are judged “right” because they flow from people’s agreed upon rights; example: civil disobedience; seen more in western cultures

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Post conventional morality

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Moral feeling precedes moral reasoning

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Social intuitionism account of morality

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Studied psychosocial development

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Erikson

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Trust vs mistrust

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Infancy

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Autonomy vs shame and doubt

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Toddlerhood

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Initiative vs guilt

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Preschool

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Industry vs inferiority

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Elementary school

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Identity vs role confusion

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Adolescene

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Intimacy vs isolation

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Young adulthood

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Generatively/work vs stagnation

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Middle adulthood

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Integrity vs despair

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Late adulthood

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Our sense of self

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Identity

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The “we” aspect of our self-concept

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Social identity

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The ability to form close, loving relationships

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Intimacy

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In modern culture, a period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood

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Emerging adulthood

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Crest during the mid-twenties

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Physical abilities

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The time of natural cessation of menstraution; biological changes a women experiences as her ability to reproduce declines

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Menstraution

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  • males more prone to dying
  • women outlive men by 4-5 years
  • anger and depression increase the risk of ill health and premature death
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Life expectancy

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  • visual sharpness decreases
  • distance perception and adaptation to changes in light level are less acute
  • muscles strength, reaction time, and stamina diminish as well as vision, smell, and hearing
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Sensory abilities

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  • disease fighting immune system weakens
  • often suffer fewer short-term ailments
  • brain functions important to memory begin to diminish during aging
  • exercise promotes neurogenesis
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Health changes later in life

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Mental erosion

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Dementia

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Strikes 3% of the world’s population by age 75; first memory deteriorates then reasoning; deterioration of neurons that produce acetylcholine

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Alzheimer’s

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  • Remember more important events from teens and early twenties than events later in life
  • recall more names when introduced at least 3 times
  • prospective emory remains strong when events trigger memory
  • more likely to remember meaningful information
  • learning and verbal skills decline less than verbal skills
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Aging and memory

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A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

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Cross-sectional study

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Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

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Longitudinal study

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Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age

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Crystallized intelligence

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Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood

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Fluid intelligence

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Cognitive decline typically accelerates the last 3-4 years of life

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Terminal decline

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Around forty, when we realize our life is mostly behind us instead of in front of us

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Midlife crisis/transition

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The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement

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Social clock

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