Middle Adulthood Flashcards
Osteoporosis
Condition common in woman
• bones become thin and brittle
• calcium depletion
Climacteric
Changes in the reproductive system
• menopause
• decline of sperm
Arteriosclerosis
Condition where plaque builds up on coronary arteries.
Mammogram
X-ray produce used to examine women for breast cancer
Fluid intelligence
Information process abilities:
Short term memory, ability to discern relations between and speed synthesizing
Crystallized intelligence
Cultural based knowledge, language
And social conventions
Midlife crisis
Entailing anxiety, unhappiness, and reappraisal
Generativity vs stagnation
The motivation of contribute to the well being of generations, or focusing in narrow self interest without concern for the good of other
Erectile disfunction
Inability to achieve and maintain and erection.
Glass ceiling
Unspoken limit on career advancement of a category of women due discrimination
Burnout
State of becoming disillusioned, frustrated and tired of ones job
Gerontologist
Researcher on aging
Functional age
Age that indicates the actual competence and performance of older adults
Primary aging
Inevitable biological aging that takes places in all living organism
Secondary aging
Decline of physical function that takes places due lifestyle behaviors.
Cataracts
Progressive thickening of the lens of the eye causes vision to become cloudy
Macular degeneration
Loss of clarity in the center of the visual field
Glaucoma
Loss of peripheral vision due the built up of fluids that damages the optic nerve
Tinnitus
Problem in the auditory system that entails hearing a ring
Sleep apnea
Sleep related respiratory disorder in which breathing stops for 10 sec in the course of the night
Arthritis
Disease of the joints
Hypertension
High blood pressure
Active life spam
A number of years of physical functioning favorable enough for people to enjoy their lives
Sustained attention
Ability to concentrate on a task for an extended period of time.
Dementia
Losses in cognitive function severe enough to interfere with daily life
Alzheimer’s
Type of dementia that has distinctive patterns of structural decline.
Selective optimization with compensation
Response to aging that entails selecting valued activities and dropping others. Optimizing performance in the remaining activities
Socioemotianal selectivity theory
Adults maximize their emotional well being by becoming increasingly selective in their social contacts
Ego integrity vs despair
Looking back in ones life accepting it for better or worse, or despair, regrets and bitterness
