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1
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Define puberty

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Process that leads to sexual maturity or fertility.

Includes Adrenarche and Gonadarche

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Adrenarche

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Ages 6-9. Maturing of the adrenal glands and production of androgens.

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Gonadarche

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The period in which sex organs mature. Girls: ovaries/ estrogen. Boys: testes/ testosterone.

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Define adolescence

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The passage from childhood to adulthood .

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Primary sex characteristics

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Characteristics associated with the development of organs and structures of the body that directly related to reproduction

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Primary sex characteristics for girls

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ovary, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina.

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Primary sex characteristics for boys

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Testicles, penis, scrotum.

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Visible signs of sexual maturity that do not directly involved the sex organs.

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9
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Secondary sex characteristics for girls.

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Breasts and the pelvic bone.

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10
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Secondary sex characteristics for boys

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Broad shoulders and facial hair.

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11
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Sign of sexual maturity

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Spermarche and menarche

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Spermarche

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First ejavulation or wet dream. About age 13

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13
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Menarche

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First period. About age 12.5

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14
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What are the two most common eating disorders?

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Anorexia nervosa and bulimia

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15
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anorexia nervosa

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where individuals, usually girls, refused to eat, while denying that their behavior and appearance or out of the ordinary.

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Bulimia

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characterized by binges on large quantities of food, followed by purges of the food through vomiting or using laxatives.

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17
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Leading cause of death for adolescent

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vehicular accident, firearms, suicide.

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Leading cause of death for young adults

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accident, AIDS, cancer, murder, heart disease, suicide.

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Leading cause of death for middle adults

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heart disease

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20
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leading cause of death for late adults

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old age

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21
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Piaget’s formal operations

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Stage during which people develop the ability to think abstractly. Involves using logic, reasoning, theories, and conclusions.

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Imaginary audience

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An adolescents belief that their own behavior is a primary focus of others attention and concerns

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23
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Personal fable

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The view held by some adolescents that what happens to them is unique, exceptional, and shared by no one

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24
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Erikson’s stages for adolescents

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Identity vs identity confusion stage:

The period during which teenagers seek to determine what is unique and distinctive about themselves

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Erikson stage for young adults

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Intimacy versus isolation stage:
The period of post adolescence into the early thirties that focuses on developing close, intimate relationships with others.

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26
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Erikson stage for middle adulthood

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Generativity versus stagnation stage:

Consider their contributions to their families and society or don’t care

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27
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Erikson stage for late adulthood

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Ego integrity vs despair stage:

Characterized by a process of looking back over one’s life, evaluating it, and coming to terms with it.

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28
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Clique

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Groups of 2-12 people whose members have frequent social interactions with one another.

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29
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Crowd

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Larger groups than cliques, composed of individuals who share a particular characteristics but who may not interact with one another

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30
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What is the age with the strongest muscular strength?

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Early adulthood.

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31
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Sternbergs theory of intelligence

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Triachic: componential, experiential, and contextual

32
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Componential

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Mental components used to solve problems

33
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Experiential

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Relationship between intelligence, prior experience, and the ability to cope with new situations

34
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Contextual

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Takes into account the demands of every day, real world environments.

35
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Emotional intelligence

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The set of skills that underlies the accurate assessment, evaluation, expression, and regulation of emotions.

36
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Sternberg theory of love includes what three components?

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Intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment

37
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Intimacy according to Sternberg

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components of love that encompasses feelings of closeness, affection, and connectedness

38
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Passion according to Sternberg

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Component of love that comprises the motivational drives relating to sex, physical closeness, and romance.

39
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Decision and commitments according to Sternberg

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Aspect of love that embodies both the initial cognition that one loves another person and the longer term determination to maintain that love.

40
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The social clock

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Culturally specific time tables for events to occur (marriage, kids, etc.)

41
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Marriage stability with cohabitation

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Divorce rates are higher for cohabiting couples.

42
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Menopause

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The cessation of menstruation

43
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Female climacteric

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The period that marks the transition from being able to bear children to being unable to do so

44
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Male climacteric

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The time of physical and psychological change relating to the male reproductive system that occurs during the late Middle Age

45
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Common symptoms of menopause

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Discomfort, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, burning, itching, but still having a sexual appetite.

46
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Osteoporosis

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A condition in which the bones become brittle, fragile, and thin, often brought about by lack of calcium in the diet.

47
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Chronic health issues in middle adulthood

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Arthritis, diabetes, hypertension which is high blood pressure that leads to strokes.

48
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Fluid intelligence

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Reflects information and processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory

49
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Crystallized intelligence

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The accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that people have learned through experience and that they can apply in problem-solving situation.

50
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Capsulation

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The ability to do less and less, better and better. Example, the world surgeon can do less work but better.

51
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Midlife transition with Carl Jung

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Giving up the image of youth and acknowledging morality

52
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Midlife review

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Remembering process that enables a person to see the significance of their life

53
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Most common living arrangements in late adulthood

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Living alone, with adult children, in institutions, or in a coop for mobile home

54
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Sandwich generation

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couples who in middle adulthood must fulfill the needs of both their children and their aging parents

55
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Sibling relationships in adulthood

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Hourglass-like relationship.

Most contact is at the two ends, child hood and late adulthood.

56
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Ageism

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Prejudice and discrimination directed at older people.

57
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Primary aging

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Aging that involves universal and irreversible changes that, due to genetic programming, occur as people get older.

58
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Secondary aging

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Changes in physical and cognitive functioning that are due to illness, health habits, and other individual differences, but are not due to increased age itself and are not available

59
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Functional age

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The physical and psychological well-being. Includes young old, healthy and active. Old old, some health issues and have difficulties with daily activities. Old is old, frail and need care.

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Chronological age

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The actual age of the child taking the intelligence test

61
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Longevity

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Body’s ability to cope with environmental challenges and physical adversity to possibly increase the lifespan

62
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Life expectancy

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The average age of death for members of a population

63
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Dementia

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The most common mental disorder of the elderly, and covers several diseases, each of which includes serious memory loss accompanied by declines in other mental functioning. Causes are Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and multi-infarct dementia (MD).

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Coping with stress

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Effort to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate the threats that lead to stress.

65
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Activity theory

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successful aging occurs when people maintain the interest, activities, and social interactions with which they were involved during middle age.

66
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Elder abuse

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Physical or psychological mistreatment or neglect of elderly individuals.

67
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Hospice care

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Care provided for the dying in institutions devoted to those who are terminally ill.

68
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Terminal drop

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A widely observed decline in cognitive abilities shortly before death related to depression.

69
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Elizabeth kubler-ross’ theory

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Includes denial, anger, bargaining for their lives, depression, and acceptance.

70
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Denial according to kubler ross

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Loneliness, internal conflict, guilt, and meaningless

71
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Anger according to kubler ross

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Emotional reaction

72
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Bargaining for their lives according to kubler ross

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Gradual realization of the real consequences

73
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Depression according to kubler ross

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Movement away from increased self awareness, and contact with others.

74
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Acceptance according to kubler ross

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Increased self-reliance.

75
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Grief

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The emotional response to one’s loss

76
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Bereavement

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Acknowledgement of the objective fact that one has experienced a death.

77
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Ego resilience

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Not letting anything affect your personality

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