Chapter 11 Flashcards
socialization
The process of acquiring the skills needed to adapt behaviours and expectations to fit the norms of a given culture.
cohabit
To live together and have a sexual relationship without being married.
young adulthood
A stage of the lifespan when the adult is committed to one or more adult social roles, including employee, homeowner, committed partner, and parent.
senescence
A gradual age-related decline in physical systems.
vitality
The capacity to live.
plasticity
A process whereby the brain continues to change.
executive system
A set of complex and sophisticated cognitive control and management abilities that require coordination of more than one region of the brain to perform.
epiphyses
The enlarged ends of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft.
bone mineral density
The amount of minerals, such as calcium, in an individual’s bones as he or she ages.
reproductive health
A responsible, satisfying, and safe sex life, including the capability to reproduce, and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so
coital sex
The sexual union between a male and a female involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
fertility
The natural capability to produce offspring.
infertility
Medically defined as not conceiving a pregnancy after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse.
assisted reproductive technology (ART)
A method of infertility treatment in which eggs are removed from the woman’s body, are combined with sperm, and are reintroduced into the body.
in vitro fertilization (IVF)
The manual combination of an egg and sperm in a laboratory dish.
adoption agency
An organization licensed by a province to prepare adoptive parents, counsel birth parents, perform home studies, complete paperwork, place children in homes, and perform other adoption-related functions.
adoption counsellor
A therapeutically skilled and trained professional who is also knowledgeable about adoption issues and dynamics
gerontologist
A professional who studies the social, psychological, and biological aspects of aging.
world view
The lens or overall perspective an individual uses to see and interpret the world; a personal philosophy of life.
postformal thought
A quality of thinking beyond Piaget’s formal operational stage that includes cognitive flexibility, practicality, and relativism.
cognitive flexibility
An executive function that allows an individual to piece together elements of knowledge to fit the demands of a given situation.
creativity
The state or quality of being able to generate new and valuable ideas or things.
morbidity
The rate of disease in a population.
life course health approach
A model that uses people’s trajectories of health from conception through death to study and understand the development of disease and promotion of health.
