Chapters 4-8

Question 1

what is longevity

Answer 1

longevity is life expectancy…78.7 years

Question 2

what is active life expectancy?

Answer 2

living to a healthy old age doing things

Question 3

what is dependant life expectancy?

Answer 3

simply living and not experiencing

Question 4

do genetics play a role in longevity?

Answer 4

25% of genes is part of longevity

Question 5

what are environmental factors that could affect life expectancy?

Answer 5

lead in water…pollution…food you eat…work

Question 6

how can finances affect life expectancy?

Answer 6

the money you have…insurance coverage….transportation

Question 7

what are health disparities?

Answer 7

different rates of health or illness that marginalized groups have in comparison with privileged counterparts

Question 8

how many years do women live more than men?

Answer 8

5 years

Question 9

what is the definition of health?

Answer 9

having complete physical, mental, and social well being

Question 10

what is illness?

Answer 10

presence of physical or mental disease

Question 11

what is the quality of life?

Answer 11

relating to when you get a disease relating to function….well being…cognition…your goals..values

Question 12

what are acute diseases?

Answer 12

a disease or disorder that is short term…..cold…flu…infection

Question 13

what are chronic diseases?

Answer 13

long-lasting conditions

Question 14

what is the role of stress in life?

Answer 14

to induce fight or flight

Question 15

what is the effect of stress on the body?

Answer 15

pre front cortex is used to induce quick thinking

Question 16

what does constant stress cause?

Answer 16

lowered immune system

Question 17

what is the stress and coping paradigm?

Answer 17

people respond to things differently…….it is a response to thinking and the environment

Question 18

what is the diathesis-stress model?

Answer 18

tries to explain how someone will react with the interaction between vulnerability and stresses caused by life experience….for example, children who have a family history of depression are generally more vulnerable to developing a depressive disorder themselves.

Question 19

what are examples of poor coping?

Answer 19

drugs..rage..denial

Question 20

what is a primary appraisal?

Answer 20

categorize events into three groups based on the significance they have for the person for well being…..irrelevant, benign of positive, and stressful

Question 21

what secondary appraisal?

Answer 21

evaluates our perceived ability to cope with harm, threat, or challenge

Question 22

what is reappraisal?

Answer 22

involves making a new primary and secondary appraisal resulting from changes in the situation

Question 23

what is coping?

Answer 23

dealing with stressful events

Question 24

what is problem-based coping?

Answer 24

involves attempts to tackle the problem head-on

Question 25

what is emotion-focused coping?

Answer 25

involves dealing with one’s feelings about the stressful event

Question 26

what is polypharmacy?

Answer 26

the study of drugs effects on people

Question 27

what are the activities of daily living?

Answer 27

things we need to be able to do to live alone…..feed, dress, sit and stand

Question 28

what are the instrumental activities of daily living?

Answer 28

shopping…cooking..pay bill…driving

Question 29

What are preventive adaptations?

Answer 29

actions to avoid stressors and increase or build social resources….increasing social network by adding friends

Question 30

what is the corrective adaptations?

Answer 30

actions takens in respsonse to stressors and can be facilitated by internal and external sources

Question 31

what is everyday competence?

Answer 31

refers to a per- son’s ability to perform, when necessary, a broad array of activities considered essential for independent living, even though in daily life the individual may not perform these tasks on a regular basis or may only perform a subset of these activities

Question 32

what are some reasons people enter the long term care program?

Answer 32

bad health…special equipment…disease…

Question 33

what is memory?

Answer 33

the ability to recall something

Question 34

what are the 3 behaviors that demonstrate memory?

Answer 34

recall, recognition, relearning,

Question 35

what is sensory memory?

Answer 35

what our body is sensing through the five senses

Question 36

What is attention?

Answer 36

noticing, focused, filtering distractions

Question 37

What is the processing resources?

Answer 37

the amount of attention one needs to complete a tasks

Question 38

what is working memory?

Answer 38

holding information in the mind while using that information

Question 39

what is rehersal?

Answer 39

a process by which info is holding in working memory