Middle Adulthood 35-65 Flashcards
What is Primary ageing?
changes associated with normal ageing that are inevitable and caused by intrinsic biological or genetic factors (grey hair, wrinkles, loss of height)
What is Secondary ageing?
Changes due to biological ageing but accelerated by disabilities resulting from disease or produced by extrinsic factors. (Smoking, drinking, no exercise)
What is the range that Menopause happens?
Periods will cease between age 39-59
How long can perimenopause take?
Can take up to 10 years, periods become lighter, more infrequent and irregular
Changes to male Testosterone?
Will decline slowly but men don’t lose fertility
What is fluid intelligence?
Involves being able to think and reason abstractly and solve problems.
What happens to fluid intelligence during middle adulthood?
It will decline and the ability to perceive and manipulate information will steadily decrease
What is a midlife crisis?
A loss of self-confidence and feeling of anxiety or disappointment
What happens during a midlife crisis?
People who are having a midlife crisis are thought to be struggling with their own mortality and, somewhere during midlife, they ditch some of their responsibilities in favour of fun.
What stage of Erikson’s theory is middle adulthood?
Generativity VS self-absorption (also called stagnation in quizzes)
