Developmental Psychology Unit 4

Question 1

Generativity vs. stagnation

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Integrity vs. despair

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Consequential strangers vs. friends

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Generativity

Answer 4

Making valuable contributions to the world and future generations

Question 5

Employment related to adult psychosocial health

Answer 5

Is beneficial, provides generativity through work

Question 6

Factors on long term marriage quality

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Ageism

Answer 7

Stereotype against someone for their age

Question 8

Young-old

Answer 8

65-75

Question 9

Old-old

Answer 9

75+

Question 10

Oldest-old

Answer 10

85+

Question 11

Hayflick limit

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Wear-and-tear

Answer 12

Body wears out because of time and exposure to environmental stressors

Question 13

Weathering

Answer 13

Gradual accumulation of wear and tear on the body with age

Question 14

Maximum life span

Answer 14

Oldest age that members of a species can obtain

Question 15

Overall brain slowdown is evident in what?

Answer 15

Slower reaction time, can’t multitask

Question 16

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

Answer 16

85+

Question 17

Selective optimization with compensation

Answer 17

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

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Neurocognitive disorders

Question 19

Working memory

Answer 19

Holds info while using it

Question 20

Dementia

Answer 20

Irreversible, pathological loss of brain functioning

Question 21

Loss of working memory affects what abilities?

Answer 21

Problem solving, decision making, evaluation

Question 22

Primary aging

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Secondary aging

Answer 23

Changes caused by illness or disease

Question 24

For Erikson each new experience throughout life requires what?

Answer 24

Reassessment of identity

Question 25

Where do elderly people prefer to live?

Answer 25

In own homes

Question 26

Psychological health in old age is based on what factors?

Answer 26

Feeling that there is continuity in experience and traditions among generations

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Stratification

Question 28

The opposite of disengagement theory is what?

Answer 28

Activity theory

Question 29

Continuity theory

Answer 29

People continue to be themselves even with aging

Question 30

Positivity effect

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Stratification theories

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Disengagement theory

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Activity theory

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Involved grandparents

Answer 34

Active in the daily lives of their grandchildren

Question 35

Remote grandparents

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Companionate grandparents

Answer 36

Independent of the daily demands of child rearing

Question 37

Activities of daily life (ADL)

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Buffer against losses in retirement and widowhood

Answer 38

At least one close friend

Question 39

Assisted living

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Thanatology

Answer 40

Study of death

Question 41

Passive euthanasia

Answer 41

Allowing a seriously ill person to die naturally

Question 42

Living will

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Children's understanding of death

Answer 43

Aware by 4, biological understanding 6-10

Question 44

100 years ago, average life worldwide was what?

Answer 44

32 years

Question 45

Good death

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Stages of grief

Answer 46

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

Question 47

100 years ago where did most people die?

Answer 47

At home

Question 48

For Maslow which stage in dying process?

Answer 48

Safety

Question 49

Type of grief that impedes future life

Answer 49

Complicated grief

Question 50

Double effect

Answer 50

When an action has both a positive and a negative effect

Question 51

Double effect in opiates

Answer 51

Relieve pain but slow down respiration

Question 52

Physician-assisted suicide

Answer 52

Doctor helps patient to end life, typically by lethal drug

Question 53

Active euthanasia

Answer 53

Deliberate action to cause death

Question 54

Mourning

Answer 54

Public expression of bereavement through ceremonies and behaviors

Question 55

Functions of mourning process

Answer 55

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