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Developmental Psychology Unit 4 Flashcards

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Generativity vs. stagnation

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Adults seek to be productive in a caring way otherwise feel stagnation; 7th stage 40-65

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Integrity vs. despair

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Older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community; 8th stage 65+

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Consequential strangers vs. friends

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Consequential strangers are close contacts, friends provide care, advice, help

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Generativity

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Making valuable contributions to the world and future generations

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Employment related to adult psychosocial health

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Is beneficial, provides generativity through work

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Factors on long term marriage quality

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Passion, intimacy, and commitment; strong sense of shared experiences

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Ageism

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Stereotype against someone for their age

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Young-old

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65-75

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Old-old

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75+

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Oldest-old

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85+

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Hayflick limit

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Limit on cell replication imposed by the shortening of telomeres with each division

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Wear-and-tear

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Body wears out because of time and exposure to environmental stressors

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Weathering

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Gradual accumulation of wear and tear on the body with age

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Maximum life span

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Oldest age that members of a species can obtain

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15
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Overall brain slowdown is evident in what?

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Slower reaction time, can’t multitask

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What is the fastest growing age group in the U.S.?

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85+

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Selective optimization with compensation

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People maintain a balance in their lives as they grow older by optimizing their development, selecting the best way to compensate for physical and cognitive losses

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Decrease in brain functioning and memory may be attributed to what?

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Neurocognitive disorders

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Working memory

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Holds info while using it

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20
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Dementia

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Irreversible, pathological loss of brain functioning

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Loss of working memory affects what abilities?

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Problem solving, decision making, evaluation

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Primary aging

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Inevitable changes associated with aging; hearing loss, changes in skin, hair, weight, height

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Secondary aging

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Changes caused by illness or disease

24
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For Erikson each new experience throughout life requires what?

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Reassessment of identity

25
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Where do elderly people prefer to live?

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In own homes

26
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Psychological health in old age is based on what factors?

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Feeling that there is continuity in experience and traditions among generations

27
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Age, gender, ethnicity, and income are categories of what?

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Stratification

28
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The opposite of disengagement theory is what?

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Activity theory

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Continuity theory

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People continue to be themselves even with aging

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Positivity effect

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Tendency for older people to remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones

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Stratification theories

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Emphasize social forces, particularly those related to a person’s social category

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Disengagement theory

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View that aging makes a person’s social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in role relinquishment, withdrawal, and passivity

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Activity theory

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Older people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres and become withdrawn unwillingly, result of ageism

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Involved grandparents

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Active in the daily lives of their grandchildren

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Remote grandparents

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Emotionally distant but are honored, respected, and obeyed by grandchildren

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Companionate grandparents

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Independent of the daily demands of child rearing

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Activities of daily life (ADL)

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Eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, and transferring from bed to chair

38
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Buffer against losses in retirement and widowhood

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At least one close friend

39
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Assisted living

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Housing for elderly that provides nursing care, housekeeping, and prepared meals

40
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Thanatology

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Study of death

41
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Passive euthanasia

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Allowing a seriously ill person to die naturally

42
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Living will

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Written statement that details a person’s desires regarding their medical treatment for when they pass and no longer capable of giving consent

43
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Children’s understanding of death

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Aware by 4, biological understanding 6-10

44
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100 years ago, average life worldwide was what?

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32 years

45
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Good death

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End of a long life, peaceful, quick, at home, with family and friends, and without pain

46
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Stages of grief

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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

47
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100 years ago where did most people die?

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At home

48
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For Maslow which stage in dying process?

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Safety

49
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Type of grief that impedes future life

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Complicated grief

50
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Double effect

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When an action has both a positive and a negative effect

51
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Double effect in opiates

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Relieve pain but slow down respiration

52
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Physician-assisted suicide

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Doctor helps patient to end life, typically by lethal drug

53
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Active euthanasia

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Deliberate action to cause death

54
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Mourning

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Public expression of bereavement through ceremonies and behaviors

55
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Functions of mourning process

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Recognize, react, recollect, relinquish, readjust, and reinvest

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