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Middle Adulthood Flashcards

1
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Presbyopia

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Age 60, lens loses capacity to adjust to distances

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2
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Vitreous

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Transparent gel that fills eye becomes more opaque with age

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3
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Glaucoma

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Poor fluid drainage leads to buildup of pressure in eye damaging the optic nerve

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4
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Presbycusis

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Age related hearing loss

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5
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What race shows less hearing loss

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African Tribes

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6
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What gender experiences more rapid hearing loss?

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Men

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7
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3 layers of the skin

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Epidermis
Dermis
Hypodermis

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Climacteric

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Midlife transition where fertility decreases

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9
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What race have fewer menopausal complaints

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Asian women

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10
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Hormone therapy

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Low daily doses of estrogen

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11
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ERT

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Estrogen replacement therapy for women who have had their uterus surgically removed

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12
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HRT

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Hormone replacement therapy– estrogen plus progesterone

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13
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Germline

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Cancer from inherited predisposition

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14
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Atherosclerosis

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Buildup of plaque in arteries

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15
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Angina pectoris

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Crushing chest pain

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16
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Type A Behavior

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Angry, competitive, hostile, ambitious, impatient

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17
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Hardiness

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Control, commitment and challenge

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18
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Erikson stage for middle adulthood

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Generativity vs. stagnation

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19
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Generativity

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Reaching out to guide next generation

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20
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Stagnation

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Become self- centered and indulgent when our goals have been attained

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21
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4 stages of Levinsons Seasons of life

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Young- old
Destruction- creation
Masculinity- femininity
Engagement- Seperateness

22
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Possible Selves

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Future oriented representations of hopes and fears

23
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Parental Imperative Theory

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Gender roles are maintained during parenting years to ensure survival of the child

24
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Big 5 Personality traits

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Neuroticism
Extroversion
Openess to experience
Agreeableness
Concientiousness
25
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% of people who live with family or spouse

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87%

26
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Kinkeeper

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Gathering family for celebrations and making sure everybody stays in touch

27
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4 reasons people value being grandparents

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Valued elder
Immortality through descendants
Re-involvement with personal past
Indulegence

28
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Skipped generation families

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Live with grandparents apart from parents

29
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% of adult children who care for aging adult

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25%

30
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Burnout

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Long-term job stress leads to mental exhaustion, sense of loss of personla control and feelings of reduced accomplishment

31
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Glass Ceiling

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Invisible barrier to rising up the corporate ladder for women and minorities

32
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Cohort effect

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Each new generation experiences better health and education than the one before

33
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Crystallized intelligence

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Skills that depend on accumulated knowledge, experience and mastery of social conventions– cultural influence

34
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Fluid intelligence

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Depends on information processing skills, cognitons

35
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Schaie study– 5 factors gained in adulthood

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Verbal ability
Inductive reasoning
Verbal memory
Spatial orientation
Numeric ability
36
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Greatest cognitive decline

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Perceptual speed

37
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Neural network view

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Neurons in the brain die and breaks in neural network occur–new synaptic connections are less efficient

38
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Information-loss view

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Older adults experience greater loss of information as it moves through cognitive system

39
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Expertise

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Extensive, organized and integrated knowledge base used to support high level of performance

40
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When does fluid inteligence decrease

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Reduced after 20, sharp decrease after 45

41
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Peak of crystallized intelligence

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45-55

42
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Deliberate memory

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Recall difficult– context hard to encode

43
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Automatic memory

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Recognition is easier than recall. Better than deliberate

44
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Progressive degeneration of motor neurons of CNS leading to weak muscles and paralysis

45
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Incidence of alzheimers over age 85

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45%

46
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What structure do plaques and tangles destroy

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Hippocampus

47
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Ishemic stroke

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Clots in arteries of the brain

48
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Embolic

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Blood clot from elsewhere in body travels to brain

49
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Thrombotic

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Blood clot forms locally in brain

50
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Hemorragic

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Blood vessel ruptures and bleeds into brain

51
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Subarachnoid

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Blood spills into spinal fluid

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