Chapter 12/13

Question 1

Senescence

Answer 1

Gradual physical decline during which the body becomes less strong and efficient

Question 2

Allostatic load

Answer 2

Measured by 18 indicators or health and aging

Question 3

Skin

Answer 3

Skin becomes drier, rougher, thinner, and less flexible

Question 4

Hair

Answer 4

Hair begins to turn gray and thin

Question 5

Immigration paradox

Answer 5

Immigrants are usually healthier, yet poorer, than native born people of the same ethnicity

Question 6

Fluid intelligence

Answer 6

Types of basic intelligence that make learning of all sorts quick and thorough

Question 7

Crystallized intelligence

Answer 7

Those types of intellectual ability that reflect accumulated learning

Question 8

Analytic intelligence

Answer 8

Valuable in high school and college

Question 9

Creative intelligence

Answer 9

Involves intellectual flexibility and innovation

Question 10

Practical

Answer 10

The intellectual skills used in everyday problem solving

Question 11

Practical intelligence

Answer 11

Experience advances in practical intelligence which is needed in adult life

Question 12

Social support

Answer 12

Some people use religion to cope with stress; may bring solace difficulty; post traumatic growth

Question 13

Cohort

Answer 13

Affects personality and behavior interaction

Question 14

Empty nest

Answer 14

Time when parents are alone again after their children have moved out

Question 15

Acquaintances

Answer 15

Provide information, support, social integration, and new ideas

Question 16

Consequential strangers

Answer 16

Have an impact. Not in a persons closest friendship circle

Question 17

Fictive kin

Answer 17

Includes people who become accepted as part of a family who have no genetic or legal relationship to that family

Question 18

Biological parents

Answer 18

Children affect their parents through their personalities, needs, and sheer existence

Question 19

Adoptive parents

Answer 19

Lifelong legal connection to child

Question 20

Stepparents

Answer 20

Changes are always disruptive and effects are cumulative

Question 21

Foster parents

Answer 21

This is the most difficult form of parenting partly because of the emotional and behavioral needs of the child

Question 22

Extrinsic rewards of work

Answer 22

Tangible benefits, usually in the form of compensation

Question 23

Intrinsic

Answer 23

Intangible benefits

Question 24

Absolute income

Answer 24

Matters more in relation to comparison with others in same profession, neighborhood, or previous salary